Sunday, June 05, 2022

PURPLE QUEEN FROM TENNESSEE

I only smoke Purple Queen from Tennessee
stare through trees to the grime
of diamond chiseled trailers
made vivid by the passing sun

she says she wants to be
picked up and cracked like a whip
she came out of the thicket
of electrical antennas
to shed thick layers of death
and fight brightly with gravity

I remove her shoes with my mouth
while she sits on a milk crate
and the crest of the moon
hovers like a penetrated ring

exhale hot rays of mapped air
while she braids and unbraids her hair
and I worship the dirt of her birth

to disappear in chrome and high rises
or manifest in the old hill guarded
valley and eat my arms.

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