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Blood and the Alley

Apart from my misery

The stony hole, the wilting flower,

Earth took a bud and shaking membrane,

Past the lobe a striking pick

Bending backwards a loping,

Breasted mound.

 

The earth is shallow.

As I bring clay to cheeks and

Whisper, unto him my ****** water,

In boyish legs, spreading between them

It grins a tepid, milky space

As pick I do at tufts of hair.

 

Biting lamps out down the walkway

And into the zone of paper grass;

Digging a gloomy bruise with fingernails

And spits of wood

That blood, a brightened slip,

A fattened pathway,

Rests, in part, in that Alley,

 

Apart from my misery.

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eve-redwater
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Jan 15, 2012
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