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[[ yellow:shedding dew ]]
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you have a pelican’s mouth: it never closes,
lately you’ve been housing helpless fish

............[one guppy…two guppy…
.......................three guppy…]

............my thighs swell
...........every time
...........I hear her say

fecundity............vicissitude

.............. exaction:

a dénouement of flesh expands
pebbles of concrete, photophobic: the
twilled light astounded
..........two jagged puddles of broken glass
paludal & fumigant,
..............gassed from within
love in New Jerusalem, swallowed
................this:

--our tiny, triumphant fingers
their boisterous gooseflesh offerings

--sickled-shaped with mine

--the folly of half-devoured bone

--when emboldened brow bends with volition

--stanch until broken