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[[ reaching saturation ]]
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wax then wane brow corallines, frondose tongue
trembles against intertidal, rocky shores--inert
parrot fish sloughs not yet, nor grazing, then
.....burrows results into gills/tooth/heart


[cement reef together with reef--
harmonious chiton,
morphological Spongites yendoi]

with surface cells epithelial, moisten me
I link bone to bough, emblazoning dark
...........crystallized anemone


*

…scarce are the names Partial Birth,
.......Eggy Halves, Delicate Peony Eye
…her TV nipples protract projections
of salient images--lesbianesque poise

..................of frozen ferns

…the blank statuettes pose solitarily, Madonna-like
…pacified twigs supine the dark before spines
…safe, as verse from somnambulists’ mouths--

.................we’ll wake, forgetting allegories,

our eyes no longer anesthetized, well-hidden,
bloated with books on Knowledge & Artifact