ARIA OF MY INFIDELITY
that was when deer chased deer, chased through forests and we were hunted
BREATH enters my mouth, your woodwinds, what did we know of music when we were
young and spotted?
CONSUMPTION we nibbled on fruit under northern lights, learned romance does not
transpire for tourists and occasional visitors
DEPARTURE an ellison of consumption an ellison of the sadder seasons
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FRANCIS PONGE after entangling himself with stones, he became a stone himself
FUCK boy how i used to need a body
GIRLS so many ways to deviate from the sun
HORNS the taxidermy deer from childhood does not come to our new place
I am sorry for making a mythology of the ruins, for putting marble columns under the
microscope
JOUSTING the first cold spell when you ran to the subway and I did not run after you
KEROSENE an explosion of gas at the heart of a black hole
MOORAGE do you know about the ship of Theseus, giving an old boat a new mast, and
refurbished rudder, and resewing its sail so it is no longer recognizable as the same ship?
NARCISSUS don’t you know about the ship?
ORPHEUS I looked back for the departures only witnessing your arrival
POISON between G and A minor, Shostakovich finds jazz in Russia
QUILT loyalty, a patchwork of disloyalty
RESTRAINT a stuffed buck taking vows before an altar of figs
SATURDAY your iPhone asks you to remember her, and her, and not her
TERROR and if i am a repeat offender, if I am Voyager 2 continuing into emptiness past
Pluto
UNDER your left breast, where I ask if I could keep a pencil and my soul
VESPERS the sun is setting and we ask why we want to be together tomorrow
WHO are you sewn to?
XYMOX how love ferments, sours, again sweetens
YEARS ago, I could have let up on the trigger of a hunting rifle, could have let the deer live
ZERO do you know about the ship?
ZERO how could I be the man of your dreams?