Friday, June 4, 2021

Two Poems: 06/04/2021

Welp 

Waterhole, obscured and famed, 
bucket lazing from the cantankerous chain, 
accept this runt as penance for my wishes. 



Untitled Afternoon Poem 

I married a church once, paraded about
on stilts with the father trumpeting 
Deep Purple until the walls tumbled

into billows of salt, then flung the steeple
though my sternum - I nearly married a church, 
but the steeple missed my heart, left me gaping,

heaving brimstone into my lungs.  

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