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What Makes A Good End
What Makes A Good End
Two old shoes flaking mud on the kitchen floor.
A handful of peaches growing wise on the rack. I will have
just set down the knife and stepped from that room
into this one, where the light is a good deal
better. The back wall of the house, still unpatched,
will want paint, but I will be crunching almonds,
having set aside something I was not
quite ready to take on – a moment longer.
My head turning to the windows, looking
out back – two weak boards
complaining over every brush of wind.
The sound will remind me
of how some leaves are neither green
nor red this time of year.
The paper will fall ope
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something to write about as home
I'd been drug sniffed
addled & otherwise
by agents in
deep
blues
demanding
points of origin
questioning allegiance
mis-
or
re-
placed
hope to heart to god
like father thought
or
hand to fist to mouth
like mother taught
as if no one had
colored those pale
shades of
in between
so I shook
as all good books
taught me
stretched taught
toward
a sinuous
trail
of spread
skin
a constant
a(c)cord
a consistent
connection
to the shape
you've made me
I tried to trace
this journey
as a map
but found you'd
folded us
into
song
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to everyone
i.
I am your leech in gold bangles
unfolding like silk and cigarettes
on your kitchen counter. And then
I am the clay dripping between your artistic moments.
ii.
Years later -
You found me without eyebrows
in someone's muddy backyard
feeding strays with your peanut butter.
I mash two fingers into my face and smile, wiggle my fingers,
my hips. You,
iii.
You are my dead language,
every shade of gray in a painting,
my cab-ride musings and the rustic
smell on my pillow but tonight -
iv.
You are just soft bones in a glass of bad wine.
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a tale of the fracturing of one's self.
i'm tired of your
open mouth crawling
inside my skin.
a tale of the fracturing of one's self.
i'm tired of your
open mouth crawling
inside my skin.
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Splendid work! Strikes me hard! 