Charm

Break the aquatic

ape at the base

of the skull.

Observe the fruit

spread from the outside

of the jar.

It's more

than it seems--

it's going long.

Spiritanimal

I remember
when the trees

put their arms
around me

and the hawks
ripped the faces

off the bloodhounds.

The Wrack

Orchestrate
the cat sound.

Wolf-rip
the dog-skin.

Body-slam
the lamb sound

or castrate
the spine out.

Roll out
the coffin cat.

Cough out
the blot clot

Wake up
the dog

Christ and
          crawl

           out the
               stained-glass
                   
                    faces
                       of the river.

Icyhot

Throb, throb
bear-heart,

tiger-shatter.

Shadow-bird,
tiger-heart

no, sorry, no.

Today

The cicada
has left the building

in the way
a seedling

eats its own
bodything--

attaching
its permanence.

Guilt

Egg-water
stillness.

Salt
of night.

Dog-face
boy.

Maw full
of sorrow.

Untitled

Today I
slammed the lid
threw up
the last bit
of fake milk
pushed out
the claws
that snapped off
inside of me
the crescent
moon is fully
waning I can't
see your face
a friend is
a friend is a
word for people
who bump
into each other
then go their
separate ways
Abracadabra!
I make the ?s
GO AWAY
the pens
are dried up
even the red
has been bled
The cotton
woods will be
the cotton woods
again the Sycamore
a sycamore
your voice
in the leaves
is gone with the
railroad tracks
pull the ties out
drive a stake in it
put a fork in me
all the best.