Poetry

blessing for molly grue.

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christianity is wrong about so many beautiful things. example: sex as sacrament, spoiled, turned into wet wounds in christ’s flanks, glitteringgilded edging, an entire clutch of demonsdevoted to desire, hatched from drippingpomegranates. don’t forget virgins and their besotted unicorns,tamed just…

Vulture bees transfigure the man I tried to be

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see: tender, suspended at the tip of arm hairs that never darkened      never hearkened or grew the tangle of my father’s muscle the way he mangled through skin      under thin bindings, not yet bone: a bicycle wheel, unsteady ecliptic starsign,…

Eat It Out

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I unzip you from cave mouthto sex-craved stomach, spillingyour brown flesh coatto the sides. I’m eye to eyewith your teenagethoughts, each stored safeon the shelves of your ribs. I run my fingers along the bonesof bunched-up underwear,an old shower head,…

Electrolysis

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Winter: my electric microwave  room is turning me into jerky.  I lift the fleece sheets and  prick my finger on a barb  of lightning; I try on a slipper,  and static punctures my sole.  Back in bed, I watch the ceiling  rotate, my head growing lighter as  its…