Of Pond St.

I stand before you today a thief and a robber. I stole this head, this body, these limbs, and ran off with them. -Frederick Douglass

{ Derivation of Badcock }

Within the moons of Pond St. Wakeeld, Rhode Island. Phebe lifts head sharp up and still gaze long through oaks carved crescent. The living rooms candle lit by a shadow warms Phebes ngers as she rises up forward, open creak; time breaks her back as she feather tap dances with late December New England grass. William looked across the space about to capitulate upon wars smoke lung; passionate and careless poet in return heat. Restless while still his hand ushes bronze and she crosses thresholds sublimation.

! Within the walls of Pond St. Phebe lifts head sharp up and still gaze long into pupils carved smirk. The living rooms shadows lit warm despite the oor boards graphite thin Yankee basement draft; rising, river dirt seam ll; time breaks his back as she feather tap dances with stew knuckle raw she knows his jaw lines endless story. William looked across his own paper ghost already tired medicated blood; the tallest love he leaves a story already lifted and told, washed clothes of children drip into last years kerosene spill. Restless while still her hand pulls him in as the moon does a frigid sea and he crosses thresholds sublimation.

She tells him a story of trees rooted beside a sea.

One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted One need not be a House The Brain - has Corridors surpassing ! !! !! !! !! !+! !! !! !! !! !Material! !! !! !! !! !Corporeal!! !! !! !! ! place -Emily Dickinson

Tin type tucked heart tills

kelp country selv severs heart ask primitive sound naught without Phebes lips lever left lifted to eight children six of which now live widow light upon ash chairs sundry sleeps naught no will speak limbs left powerless left borne to form and to from bicycles sundries bargains sun SALIENT tooth triggers out lustrous six remnants close breathe signal wall oak sing then birth for marriage forgetful of death

his name re-enlisted tables, chairs and mattings hunt

To rent

wanted

for sale

two brown horses cut above knees throne thorn honed broken tired tried to will { for Phebe }does braveness lilt under velleity

undone chauffeur inks hearts citadel smoke upon sea borne at mouth never Appomattox river stretched rebel fog curl in sieve the lad kin such land wanton laughter neighs over long grass with silver shades I tell him with a tongue cut with cold elakmkwik

Will pay

cold weather silent upon thighs backside

canvass pull ture to march within my blade a culling cipher slit across whether wind wants nor strives collects then such is not a matter for there within autumnal ghost begin again

here glyph aromatic seeks wings again pint glass demure to lips again speaks hooked lacuna drunk to street to tell of god as goddess and pull

strings hair six to angles beard in angels speech. rhapsody sullies to run upon two blossoms pollen back into broad then explain this satisfaction which cloud such song gone give gun or

a name pilfered exists within such a ame cellos willow without wall as if within mirror mocking lifted ran palsy away

words then

no needles theme cold will pay push mad ller then push mad

y teehth gristle upon another moon movements stir this tongue head up felled to wall to question evoke to falter sun to breast beat to falter silver I ture

not within then placate no tongue

leep plays tricks with wood

opens no lands known lingers there content with together faceless touched forgetful salt drying our eyes shut

ravenous yet I be strewn across embers cold

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onging slips from rapture tucked under arms

anyone can see such and such anyone slips from longing from raptures under your arms tucked longing

how could one know about the

and for matters learn, no scarcely then

{oaks}

that place between chests sits never moves water myself learns of to give self away before sun

touches revolution then what of preference

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hades spit glower give pianos nger battleeld thigh mustard soon ball is given

colors run battles spigot dry into a name is built upon births withdrawal naught counted thematically strung up prelude given a folded paper in pocket unopened

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illiam J. Babcock: of strong helmet of Barbaros; foreigner

of ancestor cephalopod twin eyes blink recede four arms pair stretch silk:solidify

linger in toxin pin oak tulip vigorous opens in toward impending to blood temper ask again panoramically hilted scripture

ip through tarot card knot tree

{open hand} when one asks if one relishes that beneath White Oak woodland shore

no will I own I will own no

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o polish to soak lungs cut with dust

here between to crave

Exeter Coventry

West Greenwich

Narragansett Peacedale

Wakeeld Westerly

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All these lands were originally c o v e r e d

with forest

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esolute defender

of similar strings determined guardian of salt

cut gullet smile sweep then oor pull till shadow sweet treated therapeutic retches consistent thirteen children diagram diamond tonic vodka slips ticket advises serenity calibrate alert great long granddaughters lung

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5 more years Somerset Sox play heartstrings rst pine arrow and where William did you carve her from mussel shells no{ one doubts that one hopes though } is Phebe

illiam, if you lived

you could have seen the

of lovers tucked claws to gifted turpentine passion seaweed spectrum an aged quahog shell whittling jetties of chest

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toil

abor

hold William daydream nickels stumble atline gold around touch cheek daydream nickels hold Phebe travail labor

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wo feet unearth

scrape the linoleum wish oak light pilot lit watch blue elongated ngers warm toes over caged ames the child cold but grows two eyes above two eyes sleeps watched and

slow so as lips tight corner open over bridge woods without trees oil left hot cupboard twenty till told stories bound grey she chews foxes tails and always told so

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Thee times roost koOOws, guardian getaway

He records across the salt pond in a gray skiff. Hand over breastbone leaking purple in early morning eel hunting fog. Held in his able hand are outstretched odd blood messengers that recoil lament reels of spoiled sperm. apparently, destiny is the blood of animalis having breath this is how discourse occurs in knee and vein circles

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the carnival hit a

n any event

{William

slough spot today no peep show goose eyed Marks splinter heads have thrombosis eyes for the

now then, tell me of the charlatan the gift of re prairie gab salt water debutantes thirsting before the sea

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ivil

thirst therapeutic restraint swift double shift Burberry sweat introvert stubborn feel forgets gives skeleton give her dusk dipped dug in commission talk of face courtesy tilts seas metronome scent

Phebe what is a William? brother what ash ood washes naught stirs white crystal spiders tied up hexagons breath held electric dirt not so old as speed weather suitable to activity bury towards yankee basement

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Phebe

platters wit makes slow coffee

with tips of swinging ngers not because Grant attacks Petersburg rather

she knows the graze of blue cotton to blue cotton to blue cotton how one goes home alone then knowing soon goes

no not like or as a tiger lily

:a:

root

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~quahog, oyster, steamer, eel~

The rie sings against her chin without sound against Marchs last snowfall. Sand kicks up without notice blinding New York love birds much to early for tourist season; simple as wind that will not buy a gift lifted upon a jilted shelf and a tough tongue upon a stubborn childs plate. To say she is magic is to pluck the reason out of a rose, or a milk bottle cold, sweating late swamp yankee summer blood. What she is lifts my bones before muscles memory tear. I do not ask the sea for reason. Neither how it is possible for mystery long upon her breast, creator of my memory, keeper of subtle sweat scream undulating dreams. quahog, oyster, steamer, eel.

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Phebe grave untime there are 5 letters in your name. those 5 letters total to 27 there are 2 vowels 3 consonants carving stones mitochondrial connection surname Gould beside war turf gunght man of barnacle skiff memory within adaptability roots

wishbone to no shepardes

Gracious Snow

would

eld

weary

ice

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Petersburg army

soldiers Grant's going nine nally broke Confederate holding lines

before

been months through siege Petersburg

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late summer polished copper arms hinged round the balm of Gilead the owering dogwood

randdaughter such

the swamp white oak August

The shining one sparkling

eaves of Winnapaug Pond

You of Quonochotaug thighs Ninigret Pond

Pond

Phebe plants evergreen holly no one will tell me your fathers name William chews nutgrass son of James

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igh children

mouth round high tides water stick minnows silver offering

sister how many words she looked where spring meets salt outlines of underneath

here no phase is silent

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Root
Root: the essential core. No straight jacket withered straight face hand hanging bottle looks for passion in violence from lack of violence. Tell tale, light fork, bring your breath tight against soiled coat; blessed and blue standing apparition of the ground. She will tell you a story now. I know not the way language lifts itself up high as a mountain below the craft of a tempos sea. This goat of Gettysburg wading through esh crafted from sun now ready for no church or government. William tells me his bible holds the devil in lead on Leviticus from the small magic of his sharp letters. He sends his ngers dark. I, my, sharp breath and wit penned with rhythms considerable. Sleep zombies rake marble gods under shall we say how burn whatever future paranoid grandson lifts as a turnip looking for ill will boiling pot; burgundy skin aame without a linchpin

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plit blue a sail rigged belly

! ! ! tug ! a tap click " " was given many candles" none of which lit ! the movements of millipedes ! ! a bell lost in chimes ! ! back to salt long with pigmentation " " " " faces tea lights she nights the windows night! the skin! separates ! tucks in ! grew wings

! ! rst /! THRESHOLD ! sublime stubborn yes door ! ! sand shapes oval ! palmed caking ! salt meets salt carved from {mothers} tongue {fathers} hand ! ! no blessing poets fortune teller clonic tonic and sweeps ! ! forever under the seizures speed ! ! speech ! she says ! {if one if oneif {

re along groove move melt nearly clenched teeth ! ! ! ! ! ! ! vocal chords still wonder ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! dip skin cold a bell a click ! a ragged sway is brave ! ! to move pulmonic - in one - give rude bitter and sweet{ do kill lion; lion wont kill bear, bear wont kill dog, dog wont kill cat, cat wont kill rat, rat wont gnaw rope, rope wont hang butcher, butcher wont kill ox, ox wont drink water, water wont quench re, re wont burn stick , stick wont beat }

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docce3 sings brings back bell the stick sighs | no one is listening

1 2 3

bears pregnan! showers

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ack to salt from shaker ! granule ! each granule through dome metal sieve

! ! ! ! ! ! inside but i know it is night ! ! ! !

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long sloping without sunlight with many doors ! we are here ! inside

no windows

theskiinonmy bck sephrates ! ! i glow wings ! you antlers

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! ! towards southbound train ! no choice " the guards are carved from mothers hands {fathers} tongue

led twice ! circles lips toward ice a blessing of magnet and vegal nerve lurch wandering this is what they wanted

! ! ! !

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! ! you laugh! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

! ! ! ! if one opens one if one falls ! mountain mal both lips ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! from the lungs

! ! ! ! a ring a bell a question tips phonate s the edge moves sand and trees fall rum scent becomes bees on sleep walking midnight towards footsteps cliff ocean copulation thanks the but for while ! ! this is OKok ! ! ! before long we are old ! a bell a bell a ragged sway of slips

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or months mother

for moths she sits on doorsteps willowing roots

faeries for instance dont function within sight for reason

for hearts are shivering meats already at birth approaching twilight

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General

surrendered sight

end

of war in

Army R ichmond Grant Lee of town capt ured Grant of Virg inia to

next

of Northern

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otherwise end your war with my teeth of cured maple satin wood an imitation of Birds-eye Maple

Phebe, of Pond St. feathers, rippling dark magic marbled lost memory

walk and bays of quick sun red or tan

surround

our broken hands on slackened faces

the calling of his chest into mine the afterwards the bathtub that is two on several moons

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and/or a breakfast on a very tall hill with all my grandmothers telling me very dirty stories about what may become of me

this is the thief of anything

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slow these feet waltz, fall, feel without that which calls itself breath. ghost of a tree spill hunger toward and bring inwards the warmth of several young soldiers gossamer legs falling; their sight, howls within curdled whimpers sing now and torn apart. William tugs his bootstraps of mud. blood saints his lips as sacrament to vein to tell the live to tear the lament from the suns gracious rye dry. left eye pillow purple clefts the Vermonters dry heave axe hack. the window of his right savors Phebes left upper lifted lip; fresh thought upon her lips. come here turn my upper lip. no, the trouble is when he asked her for her breath never tender leaf she dropped eyes frisky with lead to the left. what is your story while we have lost light and dream saw through balled hamstring. red vellum, blue lighting between Virginias spring cherubim sun. his own wound a purgatory of lolling grease dgeting ancestors washed upon stones cut into bridesmaids dimming dresses. Thunder guilts and from head perpendicular the rain feels as your 3am half slumber breath.

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came

e tell you now where from which we

We formed from sheets of carved recipe rain

There are sails set from only talk drunk and fallen trees

There are many holes in chests in which sympathetic gods ll with distilled water

There are combinations, toothbrushes of ngerprints soft water, beeswax and cousins hand as skillet lukewarm with white

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efore watching you eat fruit

Phebe sniffed your skin our as time

then you sang with watches on your lips:

though what dog has been presented speaking to stars dropping feet slowly in jest

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his family

this long thought of one at a neck a scent left in cracks of ooring auburn hair ! ! ! everytime}

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f there was a wish it was already granted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and if there was a story it was already scorned if I pretended theocracy or attempted agelessness then grandeur assumed revolution against teeth ngertips!for to pretend to be greater than sound is silence

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Pilfered Pine Tar

gold. so much shiny metals for breaking fast, separating suns rise from fall, and dinners brief celebration. pilfered so much as. the river, for the poet and pen sullen and driven warm with spirits, is never humble. he is gone thrice to affront those that affront those that are dull and clinging upon his genus and home. The home has been pulled from the river after springs ood. williams brother rebuilds the outhouse and the ticks seek blood. This has little to do with someone with enough time to lay ears against the doors of time. My tongue goes numb. My children scuff the hardwood you sand coughing cry. The oor is wood; polish is vanity and for each scrub there is a closed guess and eye. tired. how can a face hold up households of time famished ghosts so close within the blood of a similar heart. dont follow this as my love lost. this is my love set full under a similar moon

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tends moss fountain ush tangle crush reactionary capable sanctuary needle

hebe

comb rapid ! lush movements carom as when ! man ! clip disrobe ! be genteel woman ! such a clean attic stumble man ! fortune in open remarks ! fable rhetoric resembles

woman

woman ! lift of ! return of ! bathtub, forearm implications ! rendered red ! son taken illusory then one ! does not ! linger in the bullpen now

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johnny cakes: whiskey: letter

we hum beneath the summers sun solo backs to ghost to sea waving cold honest with mouth open beer touched beneath bottom teeth. soft tires scalding Route 1 South, per usual, cold st clinking against tides pull wash of ocean wait of mountain sink of silence wish of September. Phebe turns up the radio something erce bloodshot eye listens hoping hear loop this in continuously. say of lung emptying; say of lung lling in waiting for violin response cut within the speaking of someone else. William lifts his tongue and listlessly responds reaping a world turn without circumnavigation. one hand between legs asks questions and asks questions and asks questions. the sound of sanity whiskey left on the dashboard. for the moon and for its stone; sand within a left listening ear. we hum beneath the summers sun; bottom teeth per usual.

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am that sea that covers mountains

I am that mountain rising from that sea there, two of us drawing maps in dust pointing distances cut from diamond clock faces realize rings attached ame cut imsy sky stone grins, tending promises astronomer trees tiring from lectures strung tin can telephones rising wanderers tucking each other in feathers She whispers what she wants She diagrams with closed eyes prose speaks moist silence in dial tone poetry

sleep endless bed posts dream elephant thigh bones whistling

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care not if you now know know not identities tumble not down digital ame temple postcard cropped pictures We are not pieces mildewed walls of communication or bell chrome lead and gold serving coffee among brush and weather thorn !

I am the sea that seduces mountains I am the sea that calms with swift hands magmas furious with compassion I am the mountain, lover with precious rocks scraping knees careful I am the mountain the cut of landscape behind perfumed hair !

We confuse !want confusion simply for candor for forthrightness for demolition smoke uptight

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orest absurdity city city mushroom Ziploc bag reissue

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cross never martyr !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! failure as guilt as punishment peer poison

inherit what left !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! paranoia ruby red forever ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

! I want to remember nothing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! learn, heroine of everything !

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s simple ancestors

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! teeth clicking pavement !!! is realistic lover !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how many months syncopated elevated glass magnifying held to twister !!! is familiar deadly forest !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! such, such bullghting at the shoe-gaze arena !!! is hair up, pockets empties !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! will forget all in her magnesium arms ! ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!! so, my enemy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Will you? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! head being such a imsy capsule of life

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ound Sun!

call birthing moon before tea! the self temporary climbs granite slush walls native built fathers sunburns skin here I peel off in crinkled vellum sections not as lizard octopus starsh penance Wish seaweed soup remembrance, instead cut with safety scissors send off in 8 by sixteen graphs telegram program receiver delegates two inch cut photographs renders regurgitates marbling words steak tartar upon last showing midnight cinema forest chef plating cut copy pasting, crop, cropped dusting

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here is red leather bound, mother age, pin straight

sunset red azorean face cusping grainy panel wood hallelujah! Where is proof father? brothers age victory march smile Stillness on faded pink number jellysh, stamping dates of origin cardboard box temporal time shift, phenomenas Where is junk drawer always creaking for nishing nails, diaper pins glint then burn, hastily tossed matches, neighbors upstairs Where is thump thump thump thump chair legs level spasm of a thiefs

bold leg irons

wrought ringing civil war staircase

down lead white

beast print signal Where is scent of burning dandruff

friends girlfriends acquaintances lemon colored hair toasting narcissistic spindles cold emissions cindering endless messages in lip gloss xoxo coated nostril bound bottles

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one exception in longhouse upon carefully constructed bridges of callous yellow heel skin lack of disregard full functioning lever pull allows four singular cigarette fashioned lips forming wooden symphonies silent each caressing collective variable attention spans, graphs spindled

scribbled

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verripe

pencils intertwitching syllables manic golem birds speech clipping between ice angel coats a bed morning grass a sun, off grooved worm backs, on no account turning tuner down

William your fallacy bomb heroic constant, William, recalibration approaching hunger expansion panting panting is panting silver thimble nger to bone button nose usual septum upturn, ginger and garlic avored heroes stalking boot moon graspable frosting that empty bottle, one two

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oo, many drinks

shortening penile unit, castrating wildowers calloused metals detox, upon chalky precipice, conversation anked by two legs, hallway languages as ppplease, as combination hand recites varying pressures as shimmying out more gold on mornings wet tongue then Wedlock could form with roof palette, teeth dried functionless altitude lips

besides photography lies disclosure respond wishing for some poise introduced on interaction circa rst date? soft quoting preferences, forgotten as cheap lager cans speaks the way one drinks champagne from a skin ask whilst aspirating suns biting moon

a graveless culture.

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hebe lonely

lies snake full moon belly

to curve

Phebe statues Phebe cities no pages Phebe clothes nude

still nature forthright patient crumble for photographs steadfast tarot fortunes burning in rumble, forget chaos] as foreign antibodies I watered with uoride polished cavity teeth not for fear of

two of us warped sun in mouth of spiders each spindling cats cradles of liquid dream catchers drowning sandman forest singing you sing!you sang!my beauteous foe! your skin

for that I am a thief!

tin can string telephone reminder cautious Us:

is well

consensual key word skeleton

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s bomb in attic, Rhode Island to Virginia circa ten minutes Cyclical suffering native Count of Monte Christo revenge White man foolish a fading red sun Into neon catacombs

she , ecstasy of breast lampshade silhouette hypnotized by thighs candlelight never spends much time ddling bra straps under plasma glow televisions double door mirror glyphs rush gaze high cheekbones bite my human face devour lady killer lack of taste. I dont do that anymore man eater never for

In terms of master plans ame food spoil Kautantowit namito ower hands mix split forage found 2pts. Swallowtail buttery terpenes " teaspoon of gelatin Lysergic acid 1/8 ziploc Psilocybin caps Orange halfed, emptied, lled with rainbow nerds recipes found bouncing subtle hyperbole children

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how heavy bass apple, pomegranate, orange

Show bottoms carving various grins in granite counter tops whilst Keats dips his teeth neck jugular deep Show headphones glittering under fast falling fty polished dimes

Cut

See: abbergasted fortune cookie See: mother tied children alabaster desert See: Turkish city circuit electronic response See: troll with pomade hair hard-on before coffee cup See: civility, civil, cyclical asking same questions responses guided tongue sold Plastered

William to rescue chest-high st of knives war

the abscesses of white are pleasant

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the drop of R nose of tonight, past as reference future as presentation

kissing thighs as starsh move past sweaty shred blanket exuberant lover texture, ticking ticking calcium linger for a while Encompass mucous membranes encapsulate monkey bites from children estranged

of fresh jean imprint inner thighs of rapture of lemon warm whiskey of is hand allowed venous vengeful against future popcorn strung lovers across your piano carousel stomach

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his

is my, (well, grandson, rst time somehow sounds take lunch breaks) how lovers formulate captions for the hearing impaired glaze her eyes: pinch of cayenne veiled salt of blue saline her eyes: tidal undercurrent forwards cataloged graphs vellum onion layers her eyes: cut with dull bathtub bee tongue, scent of stem tobacco her eyes: rolled with menthol accentual recipe nights, before 3am sheet dancing

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kryptonite cocaine powder cave, feet

hantom grasps testicles numb, without superman

man cold cocked latest greatest photograph without music

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alt to dock

shake! Shake! tilt low seismograph baseball cap break the wishbone dusty in green tea box linger colors Burberry and Newport after Newport after Newport

will please

do as the whole home snores

shakes she is broken seaglass refracting sunrise smoothed reminder jugular cutting

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n terms of master plans:

arrange peacock feathers in pint glasses half full of room temperature naked ask dreams laden edgy fairgrounds to grease the turnstile, place hand over mouth recalculate graphs dependent on future steely combinations for her honest teeth pulling lever under 7lb. shadow

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~Beds of salt and sage~

i both love and do not love, and am mad and am not mad !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Anacreon

There are four stars in this pore dry sky. William writes to Phebe of this. Of the stars, how he cannot comprehend them yet this is all one of his song. A whisper among the Black Alder, Crab Apple and Dogwood Gray. Lips coated with blood and mud. blood and mud night pushes its name with no slow decay. He washes naught and his hand feels hairy and sooty with an impish gleam as the pen retraces letters he never sends. As a ghost he knows his fullness a whisper against the colors to y upon early morning fogs parapet. There is no grace upon his thoughts, wet with 3AMs April due. There are four stars dead light; laughter from the dead stars as oasis. blue chest bullet turned purple Prana to turn North yet again to breathe the lust of southern air with its slow harsh pull without and within writhing. Ken ka neen. You and I. Acwmuck notshem. I came over the water. Now nnehick nowsuonk. I have forgotten my name. Show the children your feet under the water. How you pull the rocky skin apart under Mays rst sun salt pond and shirt salt heavy from Beef Islands wake to shore. Quahogs silver shaking the inlets rst cut of salt.

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peak my name as forest

of water ! ! one syllable terried of anothers granite tipped consonant goosebump ! gold silver esh remember !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!! the shore William the seaward tipped eyes phebe ! her green grass silhouettes richer not that sight of thyme imprint lower hip ! ! ! !

as saw !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!as arm ! ! ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!as brass knuckles spill cloaked ink ! ! ! ! as Phebe laughs with rabbit near short root blueberries William a seagull waiting wings ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

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e carve gods from earth

drink poison from swing sets, here !!there is no innite precipice to calculate !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Brother trembling ! !!!!!!!!!!!! sinking the gossamer of esh as conversation !!!!!!!!!!! darkness between removing articles of cotton spittle to tongue to lip ballet ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! fragment sentences feather bowling ball grace ! ! ! such !!!!! !is animal to oor ! ! ! !

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A Substitute for Cream -Take 2 or three whole eggs, beat them well up in a basin; then pour boiling hot tea over them; pour gradually to prevent curdling. It is difcult to distinguish it from rich cream ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

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hoice garnered strength from subject

warmed its teeth in turpentine mixed drafts of unsatised bee honey asked sarcastic between tug boat moan there are no horses !to drag home !your sighs ! ! ! restored as genus genius magician castles lled with princes courting queens mannerisms many refuse, speak quickly soon render daylight in night shiver shiver wind full of dust settling you asked for nectar and I produced swarms of bees ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! now, tell the calvary we have seen hell from bootstraps ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

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From Point Judith

! irradiance. the soul is begging against my thumbs season cull and call. there were a few things Phebe learned from William. how to pull the smile slow from my frozen left side. how to make the moon move from a docile state. a stubborn bastard, swamp yankee torn apart with salts rst brackish eel glow. before sleds pull across the wolves ice. every kingdom has its start; claws to our green door. red tongue and blood lifts every tower down this so called lords palace. William is gone thrice from Pond St.s door. pillow little left the comfort is no faith there is no wolf against the canoe and maple birch. sparingly and lazy lay to the house pulled shoulder, bend in hand; give in ash the have and have not. the building of changing variety. Phebe lifts her portions with the White Oaks fondness for sequoia and the curve of twilight. wind compels characteristics of her childrens rate of growth. what need for pine or swamp will till the stereo of foreign ancestors skull, the stone of our growth tasting of seed and fresh bared rock. William bends down before the pawn with gold wrapped loose before the res smelted steam. the box burns as do the children under water. Red Oak. Black Oak. Scarlett Oak sift the coast and carry on with no ask of water or of good oak which there is never enough to make cheap. I never falter before the water and that is a lie more than a promise for which a waiting hour gives away without the need for shelter. !

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am that eld

upon which grows the wheat of ankles and ghosts sly remarks which scythe our hearts and tend to pulp !a cherry blue cake! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

F
! !

ather,

there are owls in these woods upon our heads pining, grandfathers betwixt grandmothers always looking at the water level

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! ! ! ! ! ! !Fragments riddle stalk you us of concrete There are many manuscripts none read, as storm is paintbrush !

am pleased

by these things

House of fell amputate split lips Circles under color which sunlight and earth

Earth is absent of color Though never lack of shape !

Popped corn, dipped in Boiling molasses, stuck together !forms an excellent candy
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e are the poem !!!!!!!!

millstone !!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!! bludgeoned calvary!!!!!!!!!! sleep wind assist, fertilization!!!!!!! taut with constant relocation !

I do not know what shore youve swum from Or origins coasts tied twine and line What porch your mother cradled Upon which later you ate suns, trees, beating full breasts grinning LSD !blood already dried breathless upon strange knuckles !

now stop !tend!!!!! lakes aroma vicious is water and time vicious is thorn and the implication of child tended veins cowards used as fragrant tendrils this is not !!!!!!!!!!! my place to speak !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or trumpet among Phebes bones ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! step in willows !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dance uptrunk a plate for reies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hands on ! !! blue tutu grainy ngers noisy bees!!!!!!!!!!! !

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et !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! leaves of winter tombs

! ! We have much to say !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One !!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Two !three !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Methylenedioxymethamphetamine! !

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narration awkward days of horseback breath upon ear mountain of word discordance rings bell {sweet glass Polynices in rapture cultures vain harmony waits between

Carnivals sung gate ticket take tug lever

Liver tug

stained hands in thrice sown pockets heavy with lead stand aside William three wings porcelain stained purple pulls kneaded gold cord Phebe looks straight a planet pulsing root beer oats silver spoons attening tongues queen of Johnny Cakes feet toes eshy feelers bounty nd of Quahogs

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eyes recently grease vices look down oil on gum patches cracked concrete look up daughters with cotton candy dresses fathers with opalescent whisky ask grins mothers talking fast in slow summer afghan breeze sons with wires twisting ear to pocket faces capitalized handheld screen,

look past graph functionless idle staph infection staff man with no wings ash purple lipstick smile on methamphetamine coral bicuspids velvet curtain closes sashed golden knot reveal

photograph rain roars iris admittance one question oft mentioned man for ticket prices he speaks in colony tongues

rapid rabid cigarette much rhymes Bronx Sphinxes mating with San Diego Cheshires, quotes Bukowski while stroking his prick

pulls out photographs of lovers fucking in paper Mache lines pulls out popsicle stick sentences of port wine blocks of language passerbys swat angrily as bloated iridescent ies pass trespass

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Penny machine baseball lever tug

tug lever salt of Sodom graphing rockies, foothills, atirons in summertime round Boston red n blue B cap Martinez fastballs clocking 89 miles per hour His lockpick ngers callous bleeding threads of doctored hardball Mid summer fairground pitching strikes at the dunk tank Sipping Nyquil face shimmering oil plan platform

forgot intentions of ticket holder holding the graph, which states the girl will be dressed in pretty black lace photographs permitted, at quarter past eight, for a price: Pack a menthols(no light shit) 8 BOTTLES of Nyquil Pair dentures tted to these dimensions

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sea I am forgetting many

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things

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There is no fog from shore to Beef Island

the cows are raising cries stubborn feet, tongue, she bites into the cold of her forearm a cusp before cutting sound breath

then looking straight ahead a lesson asleep body brackish to sea

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sweet briar dawdling fat with body and two pints of beer cousin stands re beard digging sunlight slow baritone, {no nick romney dont like the name nick

fabric chisels and waits New England November New Bedford died collar bone blue with tie a trap whispering crosswalk dream again coffee longhand eye frozen start seven beer morning convict blood dumbshow a visitor of year through memory to esh; sparks the rule for what to chose is gone

I drinking ditches and slapping milk you to a river, boat and bottom mile dull; bone a nostril prow wet liver whimpering to ower rampage to tug upon a door, to come sift iron, to cool and shank high winds enveloped tentacles of envy, ssures, ambushes, carved poets, chlorine toothed teenagers drop as cadences across strained concrete

at rst there is a shoal a pleading an outline complacent smoothing asking the following questions

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