AnnMarie Eldon

I: pave the swinepath you/r

directions are a desist you/r

desparple of the wise rue litter: I

dowse a sweet crack my clue-thorns

planted nether by my forebears

scent a thoroughfare scarce

and runnelled baybare a

spent discover a known

formal sepia spinthrift

agave horse chestnut

I shelter in the nowstoeps’

cover hysop-fill my hipbag with

syrup-tender, haunt melodies from

the pluck dunes the suck-sand spume-

shucks and only resolve and only an open

and still you/r sparsoil traillage

and still you/r whiffle

midden: I

trawl urge: I

tip over you/r

tittup-miscue strewing tap

backscatter my morning sads my

daunts. The begin. I hang my sipflask

on baal-hooks provender my decides, one

further a sententiae’d guilt array doxastic

whitewash

spray-clichés: I

supplicate motivation: I

gather snowdrupes from under

spatter-clover fend the future-husks

no matter insperse-muck opinion spawl, crawl

one step, mark vision-stooks

slip so-seed

into the argue holes

you/r immigration deploys

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my nevertheless conviction-heresy

a lime-sparge on you/r bull philosophy: I

pouch my baby-belly with warm

workpalms hew with a

spare thought a

do-able a

true

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approximation into an
eventual into an
effigy my fore and index
circumlittorate flows
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the expects
the knurlish why
the re-expiscateds
those cycles from flush to
neck throes from breath
relents to gasps to
slow doom
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the lesser moans
rising from morning-mons
the upsweat derisables, how
a pore catharsis to its seen-face
goes rosacea'hd and
rub e'scorched and
spunctions and
blown to unshunned sunset
I: famished into those
bloodruns their zest
their tart their face their therethere
usuable arguments how inflect how sharpt-
changeable the right to lengthy to how apt
finishing at a line a breadth-caught
imaginary a steady a beaded
lowerlip a churl a perhaps-
sentiment hucked
until... out
I: dry to
tender having
slissed the
wet
a cloud-hollow armpit brief
a findplace ordering
a sky tut, in. A
miss of the balanced
I: mould smooth
until final, until
kissed

and: I am going into the sleepdark without

you defenestered out the uncouthing

night-window shout a hair-witch to

relieve me wreathe me

her juliet-chord: I

fall against

aught

am stark

am uncert-feathered

by some lunar random

am try remembered then

am try endangered again then

try exhausted: I

almost level almost levered

surpassed by valerian posie

usurped by specie-special ride-hags

brought bouncing tugged

seduced stamped

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logicals put in

line the cunt-fume

caldroners hanker me: I

can only a no yet so silent

my horse-whisper breath imperceptible

all hollow all mouth curt all so-terrible

a deadcert ingluvies creature

come-crawls from the

creepspace silence

all shiverance all

small

hole-protuberance: I

my recollection of it shout

arms are pillow hurt

lips smart after a

parting shot you/r trip

wire garrottes, hark

a curt joke fraught

blames and

caught

on the

tosspike: I dream I

nevered you rose

after the curfew

to free