my skin tightly draped across my ribs
fishing knife cuts for homemade gills
8 chambers
              thoughts of scathing weight 
                                               weights

pestering queens
were using the vowels in my name
A
A
A cold hand

tonight’s moon
in its nakedness
against craggy purples
tonight’s moon,
incapable
incapable of feeling-human
against craggy purples

bodies
ore
ore
ore
=
=
=
[on mica ground]

I. brood - amanda lee ryan

a piece of seaweed
in my seraph
a hymn on salted lips
in crib
she handled it with such aplomb
it almost made her ugly

ballads - I. brood - amanda lee ryan

pearl pills
clove hitch
undid
portals of wildfire
us on wicker swings
swing
swing
taking Inventory
swing
swing
swings

ballads - I. brood - amanda lee ryan

balms & brine
bodies lined
in asphodel
finding ground
in mid-ocean

ballads - I. brood - amanda lee ryan

the lees
of the sea
my pallid face
looking at seas
of white samite
a curlew brushes my foot
bulrush-beds
aged mete
the lees
of the sea

ballads - I. brood - amanda lee ryan

long-dead
soft blues
carried me mid-speech
pristine molars
wafts of honeysuckle
soft blues
befall me
soft blues
soft blues
long-dead asides