i.
no more can you see
into another
than at your age
have a stroke
to mirror
my father’s.
ii.
deep into the assignment of my youth
I was said to be bowing
when in fact
I was dipping
into the thigh
of Jesus
repeatedly
with a brush.
iii.
we haven’t always been godless.
how this persists as comfort
is a vision a fox
has
of illness.
iv.
to fox I apply a certain wakefulness.
v.
my father admits in his bed that some mice are alive when he bends to the earth a cornstalk and lets fly.
he confides of everything he is the most guilty of hate getting him places.
I have to find the mouse that means
other mice.
vi.
(above this plain a woman’s privates thunder / below it
there are those
whose tears
are a newborn’s
thumbs)
vii.
a mare kneeling in a bed of maroon straw
intuits doom as a color as optic
Apocrypha
viii.
subconsciously, I am holy and by holy
I can offer not being seen in the grocery
as my father squints into a handheld
calculator.
ix.
to fox paw
this thorn
from my mother’s
apnea
Nov 8, 2012
Nov 8, 2012 at 11:02 AM UTC
i.
no more can you see
into another
than at your age
have a stroke
to mirror
my father’s.
ii.
deep into the assignment of my youth
I was said to be bowing
when in fact
I was dipping
into the thigh
of Jesus
repeatedly
with a brush.
iii.
we haven’t always been godless.
how this persists as comfort
is a vision a fox
has
of illness.
iv.
to fox I apply a certain wakefulness.
v.
my father admits in his bed that some mice are alive when he bends to the earth a cornstalk and lets fly.
he confides of everything he is the most guilty of hate getting him places.
I have to find the mouse that means
other mice.
vi.
(above this plain a woman’s privates thunder / below it
there are those
whose tears
are a newborn’s
thumbs)
vii.
a mare kneeling in a bed of maroon straw
intuits doom as a color as optic
Apocrypha
viii.
subconsciously, I am holy and by holy
I can offer not being seen in the grocery
as my father squints into a handheld
calculator.
ix.
to fox paw
this thorn
from my mother’s
apnea
