scents
nursing homes
abortion clinics
life
just before death
sounds
sick folks groaning
babies crying
old folks laughing
baby belly giggles
life before
soon after
kisses
on the face
in the casket
in the cradle
in the
in the
in between
touch
an open wound
a sore back
baby’s foot
momma’s hands
suffering
deep felt
shallow
for others
self
eyes to see
close and dream
generations
passage
rebirth
notions of difference
indifference
confusion
on the ground
while flying
too near the moon
greetings
salutations
hello
goodbye
spoken
intuited
each an invitation
a blank space
for the other to fill
tasting
momma’s fear
daddy’s rage
hunger
an appetite
for garbage
so gifted
so given
so what
to do next
and why
a wandering cloud
counterpoint
dewdrop
pendulum
strangers in passing
strangers in fact
spit in the hand
chopping wood
embracing
violent interludes
blood on the carpet
in the hair
everywhere
you look, she’s
satisfied
surefooted
determined
lost
a country
a woman
loose reference
shoe strings
tripping easy
LSD
falling hard
LSD
baby in the room
disturbing
if wailing
calming
if cooing
changing papa’s diaper
sad and misbegotten
pinpricks
aloe vera
she bet a nickel
on sunrise
he raised her a dime
so they did it twice
despairing
at parades
birthing rooms
scared shitless
of clown faces
fear of the toilet
teetering on the edge
relieved
to leave the least
part of yourself
behind
the young man
and his guitar
alone in the wee hours
he realizes
he can play himself to sleep
epiphany
to be his father
a dear friend
said hinge philosophy
dead presidents
live chickens
guess who’s coming
and to dinner
the highway between wars
strewn with bodies and lies
a man in a robe
blesses them
picks their pockets
shudders at the ooze
gathers their spirits
into a censer
incites a zephyr
to carry their last kisses
to the world
away from the cloud
in ignorance, he stands
with those of his ilk
thieves whom weep
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