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on jesus & lake swimming

someone puts my head gently underwater

tiny fishes recognize what i’m

going through & continue swimming

i hear choirs singing in supermarkets

& guitar from a stage in an empty theater

once i met jesus christ at a bus stop

he wore temporary tattoos & denim

& he kissed my hands & we didn’t

speak because we were both listeners

someone gives me air to breathe & it

tastes like trail in hot summer & gentle melancholy

i float on top of the water now

& i demand nothing just move

on the current of a dead language

later at a party where it was all

air & bodies in quilt pattern

i saw jesus again, sitting in a little armchair

reading leaves of grass

his hair was in two symmetrical braids

& as he turned the page i saw the dried blood

on the heels of his hands, i called

his name as i had read it in the dictionary

he looked up

i never was very good at eating, always

hungry or too full, sailing gaily past

boundaries and beautiful lines, looking

longingly at encyclopedia paragraphs

on bears & ants & vultures

all those creatures who know how to eat

on the lake i forget food is necessary

light appears to me almost blinding—

like god, eyeless, intended

prayer is like public transportation to me

as in naming is good for humanity but

it was always hard for me to feel human

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black lagoon baby

red canyon dust in my eyelashes and

two pears in my hands, yellow and speckled

i stand before you, devotion,

hold them out to you,

devotion, green ocean washing their pinched tops

fresh from life, bite them and taste

an angel’s open palm,

eat from my hand, tamed thing

have this from me, an opening

stained glass on the sidewalk,

so raw it looks like wound

before blood even gets an idea,

or bedsheets, white and mussed

in a spiral pattern like seashell—

electronic music plays back in the

place we just left, door swings closed

after a leather shoulder, i look

at the hair on his face and i whisper

to you something in my mother tongue

love i learned from deep beneath the earth

i see the world this way because i was

a very lonely child—you eat

both pears, and my hands are sticky

with waiting for your next bite

to connect with their rough flesh,

i drop the stems in the gutter and

walk toward the city night,

which is more like salvation

whatever bible city means love and no socks

your face sticky too now

from where i touched my fingers to it

in a moment of weakness

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love poem in which again i am new

you’ve been told, is in the spine.

you’ve been told, is in the spine.

it holds you up.

so that you may be closer to god,

or at least to the ceiling.

i don’t know, i am the minotaur

only living to stand.

and i learned that love does not transmute

it recontextualizes.

i have the same hands but i love them better

because you love them.

i make the bed for you and look

you in your eyes, heaven craters,

and i won’t forget ever again

the name of the man who invented rubber gloves

because he was in love.

my desert baby

my balancing act

my 222s all in order, day after day,

let me hold in my mouth

the nature of you. honey sweet,

overwhelming, getting me

glow-headed in spite of myself.

smile in my mouth. noise in my mouth.

meat, music, marigolds

all in my mouth. this having is

not the reason for love,

but it is a nice side-effect.

i am slow but i know you will wait for me.

it’s all complicated,

opening my eyes is complicated

but love makes sense to me.

my dog-toothed sweetheart

my river dam

my fishtail, my ending, my

loophole and instruction

now i run, headfirst, horned and gory

but loved instead of bulldozed.

i don’t care. it’s all perfect these days. end id]

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december poem

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on loving the prophet

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love poem

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The Park Vision 1

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JULY INDOORS BY FIG

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EVERYBODY LOVES ME & NOBODY THINKS I’M BETTER OFF DEAD

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feel it! by fig.

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“weird match no. 9”

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escapril day xx: stranger than fiction

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escapril day xviii: nightmare

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escapril day xii: comfortable

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escapril day x: i’m worried about her

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escapril day ix: paradox

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escapril day viii: tessellation

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