Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Grandma [previously published on Base Infinity]

Grandma.


at the root of silence. paused a powder. rolling backward over the gutter. & dissolved in anOther’s eyes. & a chest secretly envied the outer lining of a gray suit. would disturb the body. scabbing toward her own throat and rolled out at moonlight. 


all stopped atop the promise of dust (itself seemed) silent since your vein is wound on time. that crept into what i will call you.


we are masquerading as plucked blossoms. I sleep beneath the blanket you crocheted. I know i feel warmth. 


well i'm going to down and up like you stared at God and loaded the bowels of compassion from her nightstand.


the way her bladder empties out & how jesus will swallow the puffy cushions of a comfortable wrath.


the length of god could smell gastric juice.


set in biology

my body could teach me

that sins overlap and imagine

we pass that gleam of lOve

yOu escape through


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