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It's New Years now
the year has turn
and the snow has leaked into my boots.

We're spinning in the slowest circle
on the fastest orbit known,
mewing a melody
that threatens to take us to the sky.

o red winter star
shine on with me
light up all I see

Show me a life full with
incorrect timing and muddled data
-this is all I know of love-
but your voice, clear as ocean water
and mine, soft as a war machine

The Funeral, Part II

We lie unguarded
awake and torn apart
back to back
under unrelenting starshine
all to do is close our eyes.

I am not an imaginate,
though I may be a figment;
when I was young I thought
I might grow up to be a fire truck
now I am young,
I want to be a real boy
so I raise a wooden gesture
and soldier on.

Forearm to table
forehead to forearm
you exhausted me with possibilities -
you dreamed while I slept.

Rolling over in sunlight -
I seem to remember August, green,
but awake it is January, gray gray gray.
Sleep! Sleep no more!
Honor Darling shall sleep no more.

The Funeral, Part 1

Milesly Rose

is dead.

Long live Milesly Rose.

What is This Place?

shut the door,
don't say a word
set your signal fires
before the dawn rises
come back here
and put me in the dark

I'm losing my faith
you're using your fist
your fist loves my face
I'm in love with its kiss

put your hands up
crack apart your chest
tear out my very heart
replace the very best of me

fragment

tell me all your loves, love
and I'll drown them in the black, black sea

Birthday Poem

You're twenty-three
and I don't know what to write you
anymore
I stick a pen down my veins
try to draw out
a less sluggish version of myself
Try to find the love
I had defined.

I'm sticky with you, even now
your skin covers my mouth
I breathe you in
a pin drops, echoes
collapses my lungs
I freeze

at the sound of your voice
the things I want to say -
they won't come out.
Just an endless refrain
echoing in my brain, repeating

yo te amo
yo te te amo
yo te amo
yo te te amo

Dragonwing

Because Jack went to Tangiers
and Allen loved Peter
and the rhythmic yawps of expulsation
exploded and
expulsed
you I me you me you went/go
to Fight.