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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… Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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i never thought as i carried her over the threshold 05
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i hear that you’ve sworn to abdicate
i hear that you’ve sworn to abdicatefrom your scholarship here at this university to walk awayfrom the vacation of your dormitory from the evacuationof your fortunes from wittenberg the weekly assembly gathers mondaydeparts from the town at dawn i want shame to creep heat blushup your neck into your faceas you walk across the empire… Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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Video: i never thought as i carried her over the threshold -03
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let’s speak of nora
let’s speak of noraforsake what you vowed that night at the elector’s ball once you saw her across the dance floorthen looked at her a hundred timesyour religion becamethe hamster urge that’s buttonedcaged in your embroidered jerkin Continue reading
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Video: i never thought as i carried her over the threshold 02
Here’s the link to the second segment of the poem: https://youtube.com/shorts/0mONfMt10zM?si=YcCE3WCBilmfJ3BB And the link to the print version of the poem: https://jakedepeuterpoetics.com/2024/07/28/i-never-thought-as-i-carried-her-over-the-threshold/ Continue reading
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robbers and the rulers
robbers and the rulersof the domains through which you’d gothey watch the roads for passing fortunes they can seizeor for fortunate people they can spend on a ransom rather than four guilders paid at the first of each of the five months that followpay for the first three months when he signsand for the last… Continue reading
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