LOWERING

LOWERING

let the sun plod,

each day we take

our handful of

earth to swallow,

grit-throated, as

the topography

demands.

“SOMETIMES I THINK I HAVE THE DREAMS CONTINOUSLY EVERY MINUTE OF THE DAY, PERHAPS WE ALL DO...”

“SOMETIMES I THINK I HAVE THE DREAMS CONTINOUSLY EVERY MINUTE OF THE DAY, PERHAPS WE ALL DO...”

time is a slumber

drowsily devouring

each day

collecting along the

webbed cracks of

an empty—you know

what belongs here,

if you don't, your

spinal fluid still

does.

THE MOONLIGHT OR HER SKIN [from the vault]

THE MOONLIGHT OR HER SKIN

'nunc tibi me posito visam velamine narres,

sit poteris narrare, licet!' nec plura minata

dat sparso capiti vivacis cornua cervi,

dat spatium collo summasque cacuminat aures

cum pedibusque manus, cum longis bracchia mutat

cruribus et velat maculoso vellere corpus

every night before that day,

for months, he had no sleep,

but his breath caught in his throat,

the baying of the night hounds

echoing in his ears, as he dreamt,

staggering through black woods,

the Huntress looking down

at him from the milky moon,

her blue eyes the clear pools

among the pine forests of his

sleepless dreaming—and after

those restless nights, when that

day finally came, his friends flushing

out hart and doe behind him,

with that dread pool ahead, water

gone still in the silence of his sight,

he knew he would never turn his gaze away—

DÉCADE III, NONIDI DE BRUMAIRE DE L'ANNÉE CCXXI

DÉCADE III, NONIDI DE BRUMAIRE DE L'ANNÉE CCXXI

ab scents

maid flash

an guard an

laughed by

got—thee dee

par tad—leaf

hang ows too

hour bode lily

day vices.

CONVERSE

CONVERSE

not comparable.

listen psioriatic

muffle bye

:;:

unsummary, small—

er, silvered, a

crescent sliver

slicing the

night taken

back to the day,

forced into sun—

lightshriveled,

bye the bye / no

bye the bye

satiation demanded,

despite the tongues

swelling