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In scaffolding green
sod on boards
outside the fire in the record store
where we never ran into one another
elections erased flew past into ink caves
left curtains veiny with bald blue light
ballroom king and queen of all the killers on earth
moved each other by elbows
marble twins shook off melting vinyl
no more recycled creatures
come out of the basement's catch
out of ruined gods and wax coffin words

To puzzle holds brown and crimson
woods are aching like a bicycle
ponds leaping so high
the tail slap on antiques
of what those
carrying spine meek in a pail
cannot mother towards
metal edges in fresh-cut doorways
a thousand snail shell wheels
rolling carts through the love of space

In scaffolding green
built on the molten
world where we finally met
forgot our bones still moved from square to square
while our essences carved like water
worm of life in the air
a bidet's two fingers.