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Thalidomide

O half moon—-

Half-brain, luminosity—-
Negro, masked like a white,

Your dark
Amputations crawl and appall—-

Spidery, unsafe.
What glove

What leatheriness
Has protected

Me from that shadow—-
The indelible buds.

Knuckles at shoulder-blades, the
Faces that

Shove into being, dragging
The lopped

Blood-caul of absences.
All night I carpenter

A space for the thing I am given,
A love

Of two wet eyes and a screech.
White spit

Of indifference!
The dark fruits revolve and fall.

The glass cracks across,
The image

Flees and aborts like dropped mercury.

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  • October 21, 2007
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    WOW

    From guest Crystal (contact)
    So beautiful. I love it.

  • Ava Noire
    May 24, 2005
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    Perfection.

    The flow is consistent, the imagery unique and remarkable. And the emotion gnaws and gnaws.