M A R K L A M O U R E U X
__________________________________________________________TWO POEMS
Imaginary Ownership
Is an invisible horse, blandly seething among
disintegrating vestibules. The chromium cross
reigns oblique over unelevated bakeries among
the fictions of a doppelganger; hindsight
a cake of nostalgias, glazed & threaded among
crystal boxes sheltering a ceramic nymph in a green shift,
a compass needle upright in foam among
careless abstractions—the ruthless imperative
broadcasting damp rhetoric: to eat glass bread among
plastic castles & a clockwork giraffe with a glyph
on its neck. High-impact organ research among
authorial shivers, an arbitrary pestilence, a
sanctified narrative: “Pretty pink Aurora gets a chilblain among
ponies in summer.” A steel bud among dank revisions.
Navy beans & beetles spilling out the cup of the bodhran among
witching hours, labeled griefs. A cave of
discourse for gibbering knaves, golems among
zombies: horizontal vs. vertical stripes
on the trunks of the beholder. Mythic laughter among
bebarnacled barrels. The spill of the hold into
the frozen sea. The Master is a haughty buccaneer among
scribes. Hash-mark. Totem. Your anathema.
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