February 2012
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RIP babyhorses1997 ;_;
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Virgin's Weeds
It’s been said that a sugar cube can
pollute a clutch of rabbits, their
hunger waxing until they’ll eat
anything from an ear of corn to a
spike of cactus. I water cattails
with a silver creampot, just a
barefoot nun with an iron
spade and a palmful of blueberries.
Thunder boils the graybowl
sky, storms pitching dustwebs
from the undersides of bay
laurels. There are no petals
in...
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As one subject to seizures of perfection
and fragments of success,
who planned to be an all-girl god,
arrives at a flawed foundering,
deposed and covered with the dung
and starspit of what-is,
helpless, stupid, gauche, ouch –
I’ll give up walking on water.
I’ll make a splash.
Onlookers don’t want miracles.
Failure is glamorous.
The crash course needs its crash.
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Door in the Mountain
Never ran this hard through the valley never ate so many stars
I was carrying a dead deer tied on to my neck and shoulders
deer legs hanging in front of me heavy on my chest
People are not wanting to let me in
Door in the mountain let me in
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*
I bled it. A little animal.
A kept bird in a held hand.
*
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study, nine
1.
So now, we collect nine-year-olds
to examine them, study them, liquify them and see if they still hold up
Stretch them limb to limb and memorize the angles
the way light catches on thin skin
their eyes
Bend them over, turn them round, cut off their hair and sew it back on
Will. She. Hold.
hang them in the sunshine
lay them on a beach
in the back of a car
put them on a couch and...
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I tell you this
is what I love about
America—the words it puts
in my mouth, the mouth where once
my mother rubbed
a word away with soap. The word
was cunt. She stuck that bar
of family-size in there
until there was no hole to speak of,
so she hoped.
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I loved you only with my girl-heart, the false
one that like a baby tooth lost its root and fell away.
