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Desire whittled me a tool I’d never seen but knew how to use.

I stay gripped to pine and the sugar of existence runs through you.

After having been riddled with stars: I lost the light that was lost.

It’s wrong to say the lightning is pink is nothing other than to say it’s not.

The itch of hay dust was the unscratchable itch of desire.

Call it an echo. Like a sketch of the moon as the moon lies in silvery forms.

Some portion of love is braided from lying, from the names of distance.

Mark was spending his life with one of the world’s weaklings.

Welcome, little citizen. Lend me your presence, and I’ll lend you mine.

A goddam mean big sonofabitch boar rooted me in the stomach.

Each evening spent guessing which hemisphere the moon might wreck.

I know that hairs
on my head go singly gray only
by night.

We crunch through the snow in the predawn blue-black cold. He tells me about the stars: Vega, Betelgeuse, Arcturus, Rigel.

I am struck by the otherness of things rather than their sameness.

let me fall through some small bore into your tiny breathing eden

The pumpkins are looking up my skirt, making orange a kind of festive.

The moon rescinds its blessing, rests its forehead on a crosier of ivory.

His eyes rested on the trees. By George, it’s like the garden of Eden.

All the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring.

Maybe that’s what she feels, not stranded, but suspended in time.

Ice and evergreen and sun; three moments arranged for human looking.

she will unchew the dried bulbs of history, spit them at the foot of her post.

When I was a child I once hallucinated that the laugh track was for me.

You quickly find nothing interests people so much as themselves.

If you’re not having fun, then there isn’t a big impetus to stay alive.

I never entered no-man’s-land by any light brighter than the palest moon.

You move rocks, run water, check the path of mouse and rabbit.

We’re phosphorus, we’re this glowing rock under UV light in the mineral shed.

Before we were ornament, we were names moving in a mouth.