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Crochet

The crochet needles are stuck

in my teeth.

The hooks settle in my throat,

dripping with

saliva and *****

 

The calendar winds its way

through the winter months,

and it is still winter,

but it has been hot like spring(s).

The crochet lingers.

The white thread

consumes.

 

I love you, but that is all I ever say

anymore.

I miss you.

The blood drips down the alley

and God smokes a Cuban.

 

Death laughs. Death reds. Death dog.

 

Death to the death-heart, the dead-heart;

and I will ensnare your---

I will ensoul and be ensouled

because I am God.

I am God smoking a Cuban.

 

The wedding bells get caught

in the cilia,

and they are frozen.

I am deaf. I am death I am God without a Cuban cigar.

 

I'm sorry as I pick the dirt

from my fingernailed coffin tomb.

The abort-fetus clings to your ******

You love your ******

I never really liked mine.

 

The crochet grids lie in

woven embroidery dreams,

hot as fever,

cold as the call of the void.

Jump. Jump.

It is not autumn here.

 

But here, see, I'm sorry.

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Written by
heather-butler
American
Published
Mar 8, 2012
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