my son is four
plus
hours
old.

his age in Ferguson, Missouri.

his age in Cleveland, Ohio.

his age
in the church
of a mother’s
palindrome.

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in life, I obsessed over the volume of an alien language.  luckily,

film
had the presence
of mind
to speak
to my brother’s
body.

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son

don’t pray.  make.

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something
that could pass
for a gun.