an affair with ghosts
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an experiment in format
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sext:
i split my chest open.
you reach inside and plant seed
in spring, my ribcage bursts
with blossoms to remind me of you
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sext:
i let violets
break
through my sternum.
you pick one
and
let the petals
fall.
this is love.
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you are the sole survivor
of horrid traumas.
i am the manifestationof your guilt.
you tear my eyes out.
you see for the first time.
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sext:
i am survivor’s guilt
metastasising
to your moral marrow.
you are the apple
in every
child’s eye
slowly rotting.
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sext:
you are the sound of a hammer
being cocked on a 1967 colt .45.
i am the last fleetingthoughts
of a condemned man.
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minute coronae dot your eyes
as you take your final breath.
i breathe glass stars for you
to break into the night air,
one
by
one.
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sext:
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sext:
i am the lonesome night.
you are the breath
on the window
of the last ride home
in the coldness
of another rain.
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saturn ascends her wrist.
jupiter hangs upon her brow.
the moon swims in her hair.
(venus in her veins.)
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sext:
we are existence’s expatriates,
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sext:
you are film tearing from reels
leaving beautiful scars upon
the screen. i am only the splice
upon your scenes, pale and
melting into your lunate
seams.
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sext
we are composed of
ightmaric filmstrips
neurotic bal
of iden
reverberationsin the romanticism
of the unidentifiable
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impermanenceis the copula
between us.
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sext:
your lips
are chernobyl petals
and our love
is the tunguska event.
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there is an oasis
in your absence
that i drownmyself in
nightly.
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Sext:
I am a prisoner,
circa Majdanek
September 1942.
You are the last
breath of Zyklon B
to grace my
weakened lungs.
This is love.
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sext:
we kiss.
lavender takes root in your oesophagus.
in autumn,
your words come
wilted and bruised.
this is love.
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sext:
i was twenty-three
you were the beltaround my arm
this was love
(and i can
still feel it
screaming
in my veins.)
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sext
may blue valentines
always be within your reach
on your happy days
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cut me up
like your favourite
poems
and make me into
something beautiful.
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sext:
(the xenharmonics of existentia.)
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sext:
i will trace your veins
and follow the maps they make
until i can find your dreams
brilliant shards
upon the event horizon.
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sext:
all the synonyms for perfection
pale in comparisonto your imperfect smile
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this book
like all others
is dedicatedto junia