that clouds are cities of unmouthable
decisions or a tea of argonaut
leftovers a dogsorrow of train
timetables for an under-inflated
life in a book I once trapped over it
said it was time for his eye to be plucked
out to make room for the new vegan junk
food smoothie place and crickets who never
ask why the abandoned architecture
shambles to a dented alphabet and
the wind while you were away rewrote the
endings of all your short stories to warm
up this salt in the shipwreck’s eye rolling
clouds to smoke trees soon will learn to laugh
Tag: eye
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what they whisper about his long beach walks counting
shells shattered pristine empty clam mussel razorthus we may inch closer to the secret of his
much lauded carrot cake muffin smoothie vape cartSometimes just the shine of a new pen the thin tic
picking up my glasses a cloud now and then anda few winter visitors Brant
Loons Mergansers and BuffleheadsThough the problem really began in my nose. It
was a warm, obvious sort of day and I askedwhere do they go and what do they hope to achieve
hiding behind the instruction to keep the eyeshut and use that special salve two times a day as
though the softness of her hands but keep the door locked
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his arms wide, but his eye catches on
the sun so as limbs enfeather theygrow too large and you have a cattle-
killing eagle which wasn’t the planso he shakes away the unwanted
form and stretching wide again breathes inthe crisp air of the summit so his
white arms now vanish in snow he askswho and again answers himself no
then before another attempt peersdown at the most recent hunger and
the cat curled by the warm palace doora dappled sweet-singing sparrow
when dead could be the key he needs
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at inconvenient times and steep rates as the records indicate
she still tells me the story whenever we play that game where we’re locked underground for eight to twelve years
but when your time comes you shrug you move you
know what happens to runners then it starts to sinka bit but the bonds still tight grackles robins starlings with young or improving their homes with a simple melody
asking where it all went wrong but we must in
a different way after all wait my eye was pulled by that flash of flesh and dreams of blissful obedience
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the right eye, even after graduation, and at the start of a successful career, produces worms, which
other animals 