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  • Text and Video: back in august

    back in augustwe’d planned to put a crib in that second roomi laid a light colouredcarpet down against a somber tone in there and nowthe child’ld catch a chillunder the warmth i painted across the ceiling in whiteand through the cheerful air i painted on the walls in yellowhe’d catch his death by coldhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/55Z7Fu8U9Ps

  • these two fingers

    these two fingersi asked that you place themhere on your wrist like thisyour liver turnsyour banquet into blood i saidit ebbs upriver through your arteries to your heart i askedif you could feel it ebb from your heartupstream through your veinsyou said you couldyour heart’s in good health i saidnow you sayit’s not that heart…

  • Text and Video: i never thought as i carried her over the threshold

    i never thought as i carried her over the thresholdthat the october wind would blowthis cold and this continuous through the wallfrom around the window frame in the wallit blows down on where the child’ll sleepblows the pilot light in the gasfurnace out and this with cold cominghttps://youtube.com/shorts/rNrpKJ2LXr4?feature=share

  • with nora removed

    with nora removedby a dialect for every fingerand by another for every toegone to antwerp to learn to speak a dutch you don’t understandi asked that you remove your shirtand barechested lieface up and flat backed to the flooryour eyes became a mouththey uttered that i’d cursed in my supplications as i prayed to slice…

  • i never thought as i carried her over the threshold 05

    Hi Everyone: Here’s the fifth segment: https://youtube.com/shorts/KlMSyKKNnFo?feature=share

  • i hear that you’ve sworn to abdicate

    i hear that you’ve sworn to abdicate from your scholarship here at this universityto walk away from the vacation of your dormitory from the evacuation of your fortunes from this wittenbergthe weekly assembly gathers mondaydeparts from the town at dawnlet shame creep heat blush up your neck into your face before youwalk across the empiresmell…

  • Video: i never thought as i carried her over the threshold 04

    Here’s the next segment of the poem…. https://youtube.com/shorts/8PnTtrVXN5E?feature=share

  • confess if you will or don’t

    confess if you will or don’tthat you’d have bedded your hand on a bible to swearto the lies that you had no want to seethe rouge on her cheek to hearhow her voice soundedto smell the alcohol in her perfumeto taste her kisses lieand tell me you wanted only to ask her name

  • Video: i never thought as i carried her over the threshold -03

    Hi: Here’s the third segment of the poem:

  • let’s speak of nora

    let’s speak of noraforsake what you vowed that night at the elector’s ball when once you saw her across the dance floorthen looked at her a hundred timeswhen your religion becamethe hamster urge that’s buttonedcaged in your embroidered jerkin