ears are readied eyes,
sift animal sounds from human,
some differences of intent.
The dark will always see better.
As though it hides our lovers
like the dead, dead before we met,
the night teaches us to miss
what we never had.
Across Lost Lagoon, the apartment
complexes rise, pixelated
a horizon lonelier than childhood.
If we’d been children together, perhaps
we could have saved each other.
When they lift from the shadows of trees
what do your palms reach for?
Have you noticed your fingertips,
bark peppering the skin? I could lick them
clean as silence if they rested here
and here awhile.
Prayer for Humility
Here is my father’s leg
in the incinerator, freed
from the routine of glass
sharps, his poor sad dick
cathetered when Carmen,
the Phillipina nurse without
a wedding ring, arrives
for wound care.
Prayer for Optimism
my
nails mooned
with filth the
last three men salting
my breath I walk further
the woods dark & owning a
power I don’t trust the alchemical dark
transforms us men young handsome as dreams scrubbed
clean by moonlight we are sick with some kind
of optimism every man potential nails mooned with filth four
men salting my breath I walk further the dark woods owning
Prayer for Gender
A teacher instructs the students
to draw their future selves.
One child draws the outline of a body
he is not going to be.
Watch how easily his hand transforms
the page. A dress where there was no dress.
Heels where none had been before.
He senses the future is something more
than black ink, white paper.
He draws another line, marking time.
Dreams of Friends and Family
I Dream of Good Management
I’m emceeing a concert inside
a 24-hour supermarket. Children are
crushing potato chips into their mouths
as I announce the throat-singers. In aisle 15
a boy restacks small red potatoes.
I have to include grapes in my credits.
My superior is standing beside me
hissing into my ear what I should say next.
In annoyance and fear, I hold tight
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