seven years prior [2009]

          graduation photos

despite polio

abject poverty

the screams of burning barn animals

and your hapless sister's bastard son

  you goofed and mugged 

with the Albright boys

(one with a pipe, and his eye out

the other dumb, with no tongue)

          and your lucid ignorance revealed

          you had not yet realized your hatred

G[ ]MM -- "Etude #011 (horse language shares many characteristics with...)" [2015]

Onlooker [2015]

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VERSION 2

modicum [2015]

one registers bandages     wobbles

the pendulum is underlined

                    “quitter”

  

                    television season is complete with

[…]

skip the knowledge vamp

     the pilings on     of quiet

     of chattering and afternoons

dripping is ignorance     dirge… >

(this is miniscule in pictures)     I declare

certitude is elegant     or I am hindered

[…]

attempting afternoons is no solution

plainly     and fractures compel blank     wrapped

“One is a rabbit,” she says, “hearing loops.”

     canvas witnesses photographs     high school

     swinging into poems with wounds

[…]

fingering aligned with blinking     I am

baffles     off-kilter     a tentative winter

                    I am learning jazz and

wishing stiffens and tilts     quits

     a moderate or small amount

     listens

the blizzard [2010]

bounded out     bundled in red     

off the railing brave

into a wave of it     

buried past my singing chin 

suddenly snug     trembling with warmth

and solitude    

Mom called caution

Joel teetered     a stuffed yellow stain

Josh bayed in anticipation

and I was caught beneath the blizzard

an isolated 8     frozen    

red with my snow song     and liberty

Shatterpack Eve [2015]

happy [2011]

fuck it

I've submitted

(I feel like a sucker)

I

hope all you instigators are

happy