EARH

EARH

the reassurance

of muddy bones,

debased and laid

down, defending

some right, some

noble dram, left

undrunk

III.I.MMXIII

III.I.MMXIII

dawn raises her

self painfully from

that sharp horizon,

great guttural exhalations

escaping her ragged

maw, another sky

pressing her back

down, grim, gray,

groaning that today

is not yet

that day, not

yet ready for

some bloody beginning.

I'VE SEEN THE END OF THE WORLD [from the vault]

I'VE SEEN THE END OF THE WORLD

your smile was devoid of edges,

all uniforms and marching orders

a tongue leading down into the

pit of your faith, to which doubt

has taught me how to crawl, where

i hold my breath, push away the

ghosts of your eyes and fall into—

god made a nothing / out of nothing.

NEVER IS

NEVER IS

the sky unzips,
blackens as
 
stars scrape,
torn down

by some demiurgic
gravity, we

think.