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

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