What you do is you have a what if / guess how long a person gets to live
I think of this greenhouse as both a nursery for the flora we use in our dioramas and a Petri dish for / Unlock the notebook: torn hearts narrate on and on.
Arrest. Error. Heir. My home-twenty? My domain? My mine? / A frigid light spreads in the windless land
If I wasn't suicidal / Even Cerberus, that envious one, drinks and goes to sleep
It gets late early now / into air, into steam and passing by
What I liked about Marlin Perkins was his avuncular gentleness even as he subdued a hippo with a tranquilizer gun / but never taking
the sheep disappear / night heaves. Speaking of
American Sign Language Issue
Expletive! / in reality, it is always rape
First it says, “Go this way” / The universe is crushing. Rhinoceros, break it
Amazement grips us / of scratching brought relief
COMING SOON...
COMING SOON...
It blazed so starkly what else could it be / in the old sound-hole of a singing star
the swollen flotsam / in the sun, its colour is a black that binds
On analysis, even roses aren’t what you supposed / Making them look as if they may begin screaming
nine days without names, drawing breath / doping doing all through the grape night
In Mr. Theophilus’s jail / your crab cancer implacable smile
like recurrence, the tidal marks of a sea / the sun not shining except at night, by proxy, from the other side
Here, my pretty, lay / but it should, shouldn't it?
as solo is to death so one is to plural (fictions' / comfort are heraldic and the moths meld
"am seen & do not see" – skies / To lavish attention on what wakes up, too?
There's a nostalgia principle deep at work here / Quick, look up - it's floating by
A poem is an unscrewed roof-rack and untranslatable / by bluedelicate wing
a scar of red granite cuts across the landscape / she said he was shining
SLOPE 42 seeks work which gets lost, which provokes or is a result of confusion, which fails, which opens up or breaks down space, which works against convenience, prescribed pathways ... work which remystifies, which undoes the work of those sent to survey, who are the advance of the armies. We seek work which seeks. We seek work which doesn't work.
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