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And we, a growing matter of diction

from Moths ate the ballast while the captain slept by rabbitsquirrel

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A blade of cattail
between your teeth
you glow over
and dust the upper registers

Are you shared
or are you different
at each angle of fissure
at each sight, new and
unique

I can imagine you a moon eyed hydra
a head for every window
but tell me
do you know what else is seen
or to each mind its own

but I think I know
what you are
a cutting
a sprouting
of roots from a severed tail
quiet without a chorus
of shifted perspective

Do you remember
me from before
Or did that die with my orphan?

If you do, then I wonder
were you welcomed
back with open fingers
to teach of soil and sun

Is it natural
the shedding of faces
anemones of their own
later repatriated

Your visit lasts
a lifetime but for company
you are the model
of ravenous constraint and timing

You practiced first
and left then to study
it is clear
your love of irony and a sense
of humor
to paint the answer
across the landscapes
and leave your pattern

Your enthrall with numbers
must have begun as pride
tied to a tightening threat
the relief when this abstraction
seemed to pass
only to be recaptured

a unit small
enough to break
down everything
and then build
up into that
which can not
otherwise be

I keep speaking of your details
but know where this story goes
please hold me as you
walk the speckled yellow stairs

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from Moths ate the ballast while the captain slept, released January 7, 2014

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