~points of reference~
~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 & 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~
~& 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 & 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~
~& 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~
~& to dinner~
~the highway between wars~
~strewn with bodies of 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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