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wood to an unsanded base chest of drawers Wood
across mirror
song,
finger
goes to microphone tap
voice s
rounded
testing one
made such full circles that it cleareArm circling through darkness
you are not there
but,
Muted breath against window who is
behind me
what reflection
A room emptied with voices is a landing.
First
sailed through the birth
canal of breath no,
breathing
.Fibers of wood close
their contractions
born into floorboards
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piano keys its submerged water,
dream held under
.buttons. you selected choices
Machinery is granted, grants
The flower bud opens flower into
into flower but
it is harsh overhead. As you look
dirt drops from beneath fingernail beds
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fin cutting
dorsal left fish left eye right along scales
Head thrust
up through, ,little gasp
On tongue
the rolls off/
through the fleshy tunnel You say I
in between wet blades of grass
fuck up whistle
A fire
lowers itself to wood
Pursed lips
blow toward what is simmering
yawn
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voice s ushered in
now pound upon keys
you built voice In
they only reflect one letter at a time
s
whimper in the trees, you said
wiping the window circlets
down
with a single cloth
somehow the breeze slipped the sill
Wathching a leaf serviced by wind resettle
again
Who kicks up a leaf knowing
Meanwhile the landscape is trying to get it right and slip
page
The electricity turns off and then fade s
the typing
and you said, everyday
Hurled it out there.
All at once
will not return
to that warmer part of the mouth from
which
5[ Wa(l)ked into stage direction
left a trail of smoke after a
leaves the tunnel melodrama.
You climb the stair s
trail of phobia beyond body
Quick present laughter
becomes the haunting throat
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s cup set down is backward
you sudden fast forward
and the v explodes
all
over
the skies
behind me
you poured the liquid
what happened because the clouds drifted
where I eye them
The seat beneath
takes you
way in, wanting
the first few drops
to reach the bottom
are modest, loud
once these absorbed
no longer they
cannot say
I know that as the spoon twists one way
I know that as the spoon turns back
a full cup could
burst an eardrum
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pieces of
vibrate as you walk back Or forth
Until the wholeness of the line
envoy
my many heads kept nodding,
time
Yes you wanted you wanted yes
s till now
here a sustained stream of
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can barely get this breath out hands along
as you create it, the wall grows ghostly frail thin
We can hear you somehow you know there are
fields evolving around
and a city beyond the edges
whatever
is stirring around
is creature
Heartbeat,
swallow
Darkness imitates a center where is this
You leave the room.
under the door I see
legshadow wave through light
forgetting the,
Abandon
the room
is left on and glances inside itself
blink
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voice
attempted landing, first
Irregular heartbeat
hold it.
Steady
now
There's a beginning
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s ,to the other side of a stitch now we come
animated yawn
Your vocal cord splits right down the middle
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