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POETRY

Lockjaw

12/15/2021

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Some unboxed words
should be left alone.

Those boxes hold
jewels for my hair,
spiders for my light,
peaches for my sink.

Don't use 'em all up.

I pick a few to go 
with my baby teeth.

...
Published in 
Roadrunner Review
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Primordial Hymn

12/15/2021

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- after "Pilot Verse" by Matt W. Miller

Now to write a book of birth,
eighty pages edged in gold.

Now to crack back the ribs
to peer inside fresh lungs.

Now to scrape the cavities
full of meat and metal ends.

Now to spit into open hands
thronging the empty flames.

Now to let loose the wails
waiting deep in my throat.

...
Published in 
Roadrunner Review
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