In class, you defend to young clams the sand in yr skin. Yes,
it cuts. A teacher is a bright pearl, a bright pearl. I eat a bright pearl.
Lynching was only most obvious symptom of treaties, my trail
of broke.
Thinking’s wrong, the spring of light ties yr eyes a tattoo to the world
and the sword that severs yr filaments, yr eyes to greet a bright pearl
Yes, there was a Jew, & an Indian, & women w/o affiliation
O’er edge, und’r shirt, off my meds tho tak’n them that cheat a bright pearl
If the poetry takes you, the oil rig’s impatient. Galloping,
If the evening’s ink, and back breaking, and oil comes up not alone
My body seeks bodies & body’s no border so fleet a bright pearl
For laws of geol’gy & court get inside & they [ ] a bright pearl
No, the ri’er won’t last. & passed, perhaps, perpetrations will be
a cold morn’s breath in time of none more cold morns
Can I disavow what I hae been? rabbit, if you sleep,
Guiltless, keep boulders content upslope, keep the scree field firm
I a wolf’s den dark carcass strewn I call you wolf come home
Lionéss, yr vóice / bríght lóam / flame you moved in me / home, home
Yóu, Belov’d, long body grúeling long / farming season
fielding líthe the green fog of the valley in which come home
He build you trees / conspire all crows and night entire for you
Except those two in Boston. Love is prey say welcome home
Dòn’t dìe, bìrd, yèt / wildebeest in yr bedroom claws enrapt
That hunt like a woman engorg’d tore teeth in for some home
Steelen tongues the length / wood body tool / tensile when it goes
autumn and iron through the kitchen like might I come home
Don’t you see the light, blue corners, enfencing th’electric
-al whatsit, storm, skin, and pills, it all, lifts u, thensome, home
was it in neither of us that gateway
and if the lover is gone so is that god?
doubt now that was any such and all else
was doubt
women I cannot talk to you men,
what are you, rabbit, slim rabbit
there’s so much of you, clamoring, slapped
burrowed down in a brass burrow
thinking is the wrong tool.
I am the oppressor.
