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_____We bisect midnight, listening to Oppen*
_____after dinner, in the electrical lull of a car,
_____with the windows closed but the doors open.
_____Dew rises into the floor of the moment.
_____Headlights amputate fog, leaving no scar.
_____We bisect midnight. Listening to Oppen:
_____infidel driver and shotgun both fleeing the chosen,
____...
but elsewhere, boys declare their
dreams to slay green gods & hold mercury
under tongues. We drink honeydew
& uncover birds in closets, entomb
them properly. My grandmother tells
me to give something to the ground before
it starts looking at you as its grave. She says
you plant things in the ground and watch
them bloom...
the steel belly waits, cold and pregnant
with asparagus, half-swallowed by weeds thick as bayonets.
they clutch at it like your own children, whose
a country dies like any boy from carolina—shadowboxing
himself against the bedroom floor which, in the angel’s hands,
becomes the ship of these...