you’re hurting my thoughts
a saint of deception
quiet until
not
knots abound
in guts
I launched self
to the bilco door
painted in saints
ascending
underground

vile vile
vile vile
vile vile

a childish reverie
cradled amongst
Lions’ Manes
brutal ambers
heralding the downside

fig bruised
ballads brittle
& calcified

peeling
peeling the roof
tongue from of my mouth
preluding filth
unchanged acres
gushing apricot colors
bleedings staved
heavy-lidded a.m.[s]
bridge of my upsets

baring treachery
unburied erudition
[fortified afterlives]
take care,
take care,
take care of,
of parallel bodies

unsweet
unsweet rock-a-byes
cast-iron cranes coated in honey
rule orchard kingdoms
canopies emerald-cut
with forecasts
with forecasts
of Category 5 intensity

unseen anniversaries
seeped in no goods
aligning
aligning
aligned
but not right
covered in soot
with banished smells
frozen on green velvet
punctured fabrics
i’ve crossed to numb
{foraged okays}

in the oratory
where unwed fathers hide
cradle unraveling
unraveling brittle paper
peppered in black letter
in the oratory
where unwed fathers hide

a chamber-less castle
buried
buried
buried
in cherry trees
daisies glittered,
amongst mahogany braids
fingers brushed marble
neck craned, white of eyes
purple pulp once sequestered
seep anew
upon marble soapboxes