look at us
how we tea
party with blame
we are galloping
pleura of pine
casting prayers for fire
trucks and horizon this
burning is lasting don’t
anticipate we will these
are sirens collapsed my
bray glued within amber
surrendering for hornets and sugarcane
but we are saddled beside trees ancient
sap becomes our haunting to become
a tree you must make things
right but i was never forgiven
for the root decay i salvaged
my last departure beneath this
moment is a pulse we
forgive our philosopher

run afar

return not

closed mouth

you dare say

if this too is our battle
prepare to lose x-ray vision

so we fled
valley of ash
blood of sunrise

we find shelter

you enter
the cockroach threshold
declare every door
has a conscience violent
is the slam closing behind
us i think for a moment

we are safe i breathe air open my slumbered

mind awaken from the equus
of night racing blink away
tumour planned skies who will
father our offspring milk bottle
of cumulus circles our
filth biblical thunder
begins a clap a cough
of pearls distributed by
nonethical rain sends light
beams to shock the chains
of our muzzles we felt
the slamming of
the door but we did
not think of its i n g r e s s

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