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__ / 1 Obfuscating , you say, to devils like me / who reads you? / / His accent unholy as vampires / contaminating your virginal Holy Words / ...
… and Trembling
After Kierkegaard / / He draws the blood out of my limbs / like handkerchiefs pulled from a sleeve. / He presses the tint out of my skin. / I watch...
Blood is Blood
JEW ARAB Bullets. Hail. This brutal rain, This brutal rain, a prologue. a prologue. We are We are the Chosen the desert dwellers of...
Harvest
what turns up is not / always what we expect / / among the new potatoes / cranberry glass sharded / porcelain the banded trunks / rattling like...
Alberta, 1983
she is still young enough / to remember the bougainvillea / on the eaves old men / shuffling in the breezeway / how paan dyes the teeth / red &...
Bread
I grind my grandmother’s bones to a powder / add a little water from the blue glacier / spit and stir, knead in dry leaves / the yellow fat from new cream...
Almost Blind
Once, in twilight woods, / he bent to pass beneath / a fallen tree, didn’t see / the branch, pointed like a beak. / / Today he watches a heron feed...
Departure
He rowed until the palisades wavered in the distance like the energy of heat. The sky took / on a blister-sheen. Out he rowed, further until his motives proved insoluble, until the...
Ampleur et densité
Ce n’est pas nécessaire / Il y a suffisamment d’amour dans le monde / La preuve, c’est que si on pouvait capter / tous les baisers qui se donnent en cette minute...