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  • the eyelid of blind heaven

    the eyelid of blind heaven pulled back from the eye’s winter squint at dawnfrom the horizon to the eastto the west the sky is eye white to the northto the south look up for the german blue irisfar as your eye seesthere’s bone white cloudlook up for the coal blackpupil that’s caught sunfirethe sky’s all…

  • prove the man in the moon’s

    prove the man in the moon’sthumb and his finger that pointsat the sleeper’s eye pinchthe cabbage leaf edge of the eyelid argue that he pulls the eyelid up the forehead of a cabbage pulls the waker’s closedeye open to a widened squintconclude the caterpillarbrain in the head of cabbage seesa line of fire across the…

  • blame the man in the moon

    blame the man in the moonwith your finger flippages and turn the days of the calendar whilehe prepares to bury his face inthe dessau you don’t seeyou can’t see jerusalemyou can’t see what you pray to or whohis thumb with his pointer he peelsthe eyelid back from the crack of dawn

  • the closed eye of the blinded

    the closed eye of the blindedcyclops drowsy as a lotus eater opensa narrow slit across the eastern foreheada crack of fire across the night black bonewake uphere inside the monster’s skull it dawns

  • late winter

    late winterthe night that lives these months with meat dusk it beganto return through gaps between timbersthrough cracks in the mudded wallsi began to shiver like an aging manfaded to blindearly summerthe day that’s cometo live these months with me i wanted her to be my lover warm and radianti wanted to ask if she’dclosed…

  • the candelabra

    the candelabrathat’s always on the table whereby goose featherby the changes from the daylight to the lighting of the candles you writethe changes from the greek to the germanwrite by candlelightfor every table in the empirefor the light of every candlea bible

  • Text & Video: she must have thought my life was the promised land

    she must have thought my life was the promised landeden on earth that’s why she came inshe must have thought it was june where i stoodthe grass greenest as it was on the chapel lawnshe must have thought buds burst into greenleaves and there’d be appleshanging from branches that were bare in aprilshe must have…

  • when you’ve pushed down on the floor with both feet

    when you’ve pushed down on the floor with both feetunbent yourself at both knees at both hip joints unbowedwhen you’ve stood upright to begin beside your beduncrook yourself at both elbows at both wrists uncurlin your hand the candlestub in the candlestickthe flame you created the fire lower itshow yourself your light your feet your…

  • say you carried your candlelight

    say you carried your candlelightat mid day meal tomorrowtell yunger yours was the window into the dark the cave dark inside of the predawn lined with velvet black velvetsay you know the hand that carries the nightcarried the dying of the fire in the fireplace and the firelightin the windows of the duke’s manor house…

  • Text and Video: abi says they should sell

    abi says they should sell what little farm house what little farm remains rent an apartment in the city where his highnesswill still demand his daily twenty and the lionesswithout her plot of garden she’ll go scavenge in the streets nonono i will not be shamed to see her in a dirty tweedovercoat stained with…