The MaryS
I am reading a woman. We are
staying up late alone. She has
the house holed in her mouthing
out a gory oracle
She has taken herself off she has taken her
self over. She expects
parameters lets them scale her
widowed skin
Her landscape is an emptiness in
my unmothered belly. Her body wants
a phosphorous along the soft knock of
my tongue
Explain your sestina to me
while we share garments for heartless
dolls. We put them to
sleep in alphabetical destiny teach ourselves sleeplessness
inventory
She is anxious about the interiority
of kisses. She is wearing a house
a coat of many hours
We stop to heat water
to wipe up screams. Her arms
are exemplary arms are exhausted. She listens
for signs in others until she forgets
her own
She melts down butter over the nuptial
wound
We have tabled the roses the photographs. Breathing
extinguishes a face in the hall. She reads
to me with stiffest fingers the night in pieces a sewing
bee and the moon rocking over
our changeable angel
I lay her face down her spine
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