the middle life of hands
say poverty could possess a doll whose favorite and only outfit a schoolteacher mends while picturing
two pieces of chalk which become the late life ******* of the ghost mother who cannot cradle the crucified yet travels to the many scenes of crucifixion to lade the Christ pale glove onto the hands men think they’ve touched.
sibling talent
my sister rubs cigarette ash onto her palms. her lips could kiss a mime and get away with it. I can’t walk on my hands at night without having my father come home mid-day to find my mother on her knees scrubbing the kitchen floor with circus cloth.
husk bearing
the bath a baby pool for the barren. I turn the knobs, hear nothing, and call to my mother. call with ma, and then ma again. most made of one silence but she of two. my right ear at the door and my other patient. her knees sound like my father’s cheekbones. the tears in them he says are shrapnel. of course I don’t believe this. when I wanted to paint my treehouse yellow mother straightened me and asked for stillbirth yellow. then poverty yellow. for another example you would have to believe my bout with chicken pox left a yellow basket stranded on the still river of my tongue.
listen. the buzz on a delay
but bee
arrives.
Jun 27, 2013
Jun 27, 2013 at 2:32 PM UTC
the middle life of hands
say poverty could possess a doll whose favorite and only outfit a schoolteacher mends while picturing
two pieces of chalk which become the late life ******* of the ghost mother who cannot cradle the crucified yet travels to the many scenes of crucifixion to lade the Christ pale glove onto the hands men think they’ve touched.
sibling talent
my sister rubs cigarette ash onto her palms. her lips could kiss a mime and get away with it. I can’t walk on my hands at night without having my father come home mid-day to find my mother on her knees scrubbing the kitchen floor with circus cloth.
husk bearing
the bath a baby pool for the barren. I turn the knobs, hear nothing, and call to my mother. call with ma, and then ma again. most made of one silence but she of two. my right ear at the door and my other patient. her knees sound like my father’s cheekbones. the tears in them he says are shrapnel. of course I don’t believe this. when I wanted to paint my treehouse yellow mother straightened me and asked for stillbirth yellow. then poverty yellow. for another example you would have to believe my bout with chicken pox left a yellow basket stranded on the still river of my tongue.
listen. the buzz on a delay
but bee
arrives.
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