tossed into a crayon stream live frogs 

 heart murmur definitely numb to scars

 over crystal orbs crushed by five-toed hooves my knees melt on promises 

 balancing young night on a wobbly head the weightlessness of my soul

 of shame and strawberries your carp boss

 death by car beards all rivers being

 knowing yourself as plant elk bones

 the agency of horses dried flowers

 open page across midnight all memories hide people

 

 birth pangs she asks what’s a scapegoat

 

 today being the world you cover yourself in sugar

 autobiography frozen berries that stain a pan

 pocket calculator the comfort of apes

 suburban gothic the only answer ducks

 their morality an invisible hotdog

 the mirror I held up for search lights  darkness in my palm

 stood-up she thinks of the word aquarium

 

up close the ladybird is up close and really big

 at vespers a molehill rises between my knees     

 in my prison frogs sip the sea 

 

 through my bifocals a cloud shift of certain speed

 cry of the loon grinding in my molars

 

 

 like it or not says he blue water colours sheep bells

 parted hair-drizzle broken street lights

 foot stabs a sun dial's soft creaks in the dark

 an ingrown silence coiled in a diary whimpers

 slinking deeper as fish is my soul an ocean?

 

 not believing in dreams a father drops the squid

 beyond my grave a boy of light and milk

 bird feet the night we destroyed the buildings