is our sorrow tree.
Here is our hollow.
Here only the sweetest grass.
O, your crown of rushes.
Finally our good hour.
Our gold all-encompassing.
I will never, never leave you.
Deer brother. Dear brother.
LOST LETTER
This is the first time I’ve written to you,
and I know now why they called me little witch.
My hands have done terrible things.
I remember the first time, your hand cupped
over the glass and over mine, O charging desire—
the welcome rush of the wild heart, poppies
blooming under my skin, a perfect red burst.
And now he’s in the other room, and I can’t
be long remembering you. You wore your anger
like a bare coat until I plucked myself from your
pocket. I knew nothing of loss.
PIGEONS
Once we walked into a field and watched pigeons
black out the sky, thousands of wings whirring,
and it was a wonder they stayed aloft.
The most brilliant part of you exists to haunt me:
a bomb in the womb or men in the rafters.
Sometimes I can’t believe my heart,
how it continues.
How it isn’t black and withered,
how the chambers remain clear,
the beat plain and perfect.
CHURCH, HIPBONE
Ready tender mass. Glossy rope, we bare our teeth.
Equal the church, the hipbone, the sliced ocean.
That old yank in the throat, bedded for days. Perpetual tangle.
Something bent, fashioned in fits, memory of your arm
filling a sleeve. A blue whale’s heart is the size of a small car
and I am finding it hard to imagine anyone who would not
be moved to think of that vehicle. I want to drive fast
into your mouth, leave nothing on the table. Ridge inside
of me, hurt spot continually worried, thumb brushed
against collarbone until it begins to crumble. Which parts
belong to me? Just the blossoming, or the tongued flat skin?
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