From After History
Leg Hair
“take a good look at everything”—(at everything)
for half of his body burning
and the other half—
but which half making
money for college
and scars for years like that.
Two:
two hard extractions and
the material beach worth
of usable blood
to make me safe
“in my dream” (in your dream)
“in my home” (in your home)
— touch my titanium leg
Lantern
freed
the knob from turning”
the
door behind you closing”
and
with you hearing”
the
damaged part, holding”
to
imagine a place you go on learning”
in
the possibility of learning”
so
the years returning ”
so
the light coning”
down for whatever “feeling” is—to
de-story it—I destroy it
me,
like mine, like the difficult run-on
yearning”
O,
yearning, for my own little larder—my
deadbright
nesting
in everything”
Last Night's Party
new
faces
new
smears
new
debt
and the sucking sound toomal à liaise
and the sucking sound too
of
endangered reign
magenta
living
&
blue: some paradise of exchange
as
you hadn’t thought of visiting
bored
in paranormal meaning:
we
weren’t together in fiction
but
buoyed by secrecy—
days
that iron away
as
sky plums down: dawn
and
the powder gone
is
sad to see us go.
