i.
how writing with stickers is
possible with awkward scissoring
how fossil consolations
learnt much from your mother
o core sampler of your days
how sluggish struggle displays
in small puddles of despair
how restful decay limpt from that strange war
pace placing sprints and gambols
ii.
we cleant depression spoor
such days disprove desserts
butted heads for glorious steams
baited glances and an odd formality
always game
to dance rules pounce schedules
perhaps we need a hunt
some cornered tongue of concentration
to taste disdain and awe
how beautiful self is
our songs to keep the rhythm of the work
how fraught like all good art
with risk and wet unconscience
iii.
let so much go to see who flew
lose much thought solid through fingers
like forest fire rasczes
asbestos temptations
of nomadry of daftness
of rudeness of health sickness knows
of nails of insensate hammers
o Calvary bunny,
your strength and shampoot fluff
shoot through each other how fireworks do
how newness wisens
how arteries prove veins
as gawkers do believers
when doubt wefts the vanity of faith
and so with every bomb my thanks
cremate impatience with some awe
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