I
Let me tell you a story about portraits. A car disappearing. Its last wheel clung desperately to the sick camphor leaves on the road. A mother’s cheek
shrank against her bones, veins and veins of dark sun ripened outside California. Please please whispered the sun I was having too much fun
Let me tell you a story about a daughter. Kneeling beneath a girl’s dress
in summer something bit her teeth and she tasted spice.
I want to save some for the future she thought bad could only be saved by
when she stood up again it was december the road back home flickered; whites in her mother’s hair her neck was bleeding fire
in summer something bit her teeth and she tasted spice.
I want to save some for the future she thought bad could only be saved by
when she stood up again it was december the road back home flickered; whites in her mother’s hair her neck was bleeding fire
let me tell you about burning it is the unit between her and her mother
the daughter dead in the back seat
of the car
disaster
the daughter dead in the back seat
of the car
disaster
traversing past the city
american lands sputter into phantoms no, no, no nonononono
she cried
lines of nos soaked in nocturnal bites
winds in her mother’s car have changed the way
she held her knife
she cried
lines of nos soaked in nocturnal bites
winds in her mother’s car have changed the way
she held her knife
II
forever
tight-kissing
between
each breath
you took
one breath
farther from
where I was
splashes of Californian sky
spending
the only word
it knows
shoulders
touching like
tight-kissing
between
each breath
you took
one breath
farther from
where I was
splashes of Californian sky
spending
the only word
it knows
shoulders
touching like
sunset
skirt-
swirls
ankles
an ocean
salt stains
on your leather couch
my chest tides echo ascending insects
skirt-
swirls
ankles
an ocean
salt stains
on your leather couch
my chest tides echo ascending insects
rising—
here all about stealing
and forgetting
I barely remembered
mother’s face
here all about stealing
and forgetting
I barely remembered
mother’s face
trumpet creepers
your garden
distorted&
stretching
violence of happenings
the religion of my body
wild fires of right rib
neocolor lips
sweet catapult
curves of a stranded tongue
so hard to take
your garden
distorted&
stretching
violence of happenings
the religion of my body
wild fires of right rib
neocolor lips
sweet catapult
curves of a stranded tongue
so hard to take
catastrophe is two animals