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The Bodyexpand_moreBut we do despise beauty. We connect it with softness and immortality.
I know which home takes the turning, which mind washes in hot water.
I awakened on my belly—my back a raw field from nape to heels.
I found Lowell’s gun a long time ago. He’s not a genius at hiding things.
The urge to be a tiny bird upon a tiny limb, maybe a bridled titmouse.
Now he chuckles with the sea, stitched within its timeless jive.
Let father be a man walking to the river, ready to bargain with water.
“I don’t care how tired we are. I’m not not having sex on my wedding night.”
She had felt to him like some floating spirit of who she used to be.
It seemed to her that they only ever touched each other in transient, sudden ways.
How do you beat a man who refuses to rise from a puddle of his own blood.
Everyone has something lodged and jittering inside them.
The first murder had been a half dozen years ago in a warmer city.
References to and portrayals of hypocrisy, moral sloth, venery.
Who needs driftwood when I can bury myself in your loamy soil.
My love swims you, your shoulders like hard sails under the green curls.
He knew what those friends were worth: he knew the girls too.
She wears her nakedness like it has been woven from air.
A car curved left, leapt the curb, and came at us like the line of a bullet.
Dan Gerber reads poems of boyhood, and from the end of his mother’s life.
In that world I was a fish too eager to enter the nets; here, I’m a river.
Rebecca Lehmann
You can stand on the edge and tremble with fear or risk your life.
I want to sleep in a bed next to a man who won’t dream of me all night.
My “lonelymaking.” Also known as my horrible secret, continent-wide.
The waves of laughters breach an inlet of cumulus and I’m excited.
insomniacs gesturing in a cave of neon light the narrative of their lives
I slept but never dreamed there. Nor did I feel the need to court a god.
The night shower is a personal pan-blizzard, a folklore-free zone.
The angel lay in his body effervescent as a flake of alabaster.
