the man digging in his yard is looking for his dog. this is my lucky window. in this much silence, a baby could get a tooth. a mom a finger if a car door slams. the man digs and the ice comes for its heartbroken road. wounds move in a deerless world.
[born]
disguised as
as if I would know
[access verses]
a classroom, a house
but never the ghost of a church
–
the boys they play scarecrow loves horse, and the girls
the shepherdess on a boat names her dog
–
hey, distance
lose the baby
(says the empty box)
[holding the baby]
a deleted voicemail of a boy asking his mom how to prepare a past meal. my handwriting an insect I want the best for. dream and the moth it won’t finish.
[vespers]
them raccoons out there is tarrying
up
yr bible
–
tearin
–
border: my eyes can’t stop what the back of my head is eating
mirror: a godless hyphenate
–
my man is a body whose moon is vacant
–
they is out there to flood
sightseers
with basilisk
****
–
in the valley of my choking the fingers of my father are going dog’s-collar purple