as if voices through
a hall I am aware
the birds' relevancy
completes biology's steps

grief   ruby   sapphire
the stones project
an awful radiance made
true by faults

chill bones frame a still
warm heart you see
the tree names
according to what it was

once it held us
we became angry
with confrontation
like smoke the feeling

faded like sound it
reverberated in the ear
& boy did bird swing
in the evening time

where I moved was
absolutely not based
on belief but a story
where houses remained

the dozen or so miles
my stomach swelled
with seeds didn't last
long enough for any of us

light I may have said turned
phlegmatic in the eye don't
take this to be rerun at
night   take it to run

display the crystals
in the body goliath
stricken with insomnia
puked blood because

blood was blue & made
sense now sense can be
made what it was
grief   a lukewarm

heart surrounded by
cold sinew once
used for string so
that song could exist

should a canary consider
itself lucky if it could
still shadow against the
branches relevant &

not so boring in its flight

 

 

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