Threading
pulse extends from tethered lips
know mute & humming flutter
pulse extends even callused or radial
patiently tapping tongue & feet
pulse tempered constellation forms
generations threading differential lines
pulse beating feather veined
grasp at each others tenders
pulse extends four chambered branch
logged pitch of entry
pulse extends an echoing scale
abalone sheen & tribal insistent
pulse extends us adobe
grass clump hearts flung into sifting wind
Untitled
I.
dear deity of untied shoelaces
dear deity of bathtub makeshift rafts
why must we fill our voice
with typewriter
machine our pages hoping
like our letters
skin tissued thin
between written & implied respiration
II.
paper ghost drowning archive
stutter at lines, echoes, creases
here are my palms
like pages opened
waiting & thready
III.
stitch photos into coat hems
commit to memory
then hollow
the soles of shoes
this is how we enter
unravelling expressions
graveyard our hearts
repeat names as omens
kneel at our own undoing
IV.
pull teeth, drag our names
dirty & gaping
we re-stack
our own vertebrae
become lines
save broken
glasses limbs promises
count backwards
stamps permissions train tracks
measure
ricochets of childhood
V.
we shrapnel call
hold our ribs
hold attention
burrow under floorboards
press coins into soap
after crossing
what is our name