Thursday, February 04, 2021

In the cage of breath
you hover with a common radiance
and pedantic mouth,
chattering above the rocking oven
ascending in a rocket ship's swimming pool
halls caked with plastic mud
black holes overeating in the far reaches
the bones of asteroids
near an imprisoned sun.

Ice dripping through the shell of speech
the frozen dancer's body
suspended on a garden of thorns
and assembly line beds
ash flakes crossing a telescoped square
a peeled horizon
throwing off quill clouds
and dismembered shelves.

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