black bile … (ise #3)

preface to the absent lavation
hostage letters: guidelines
for burning atrabilious simula
crum 2024

i.

ise got saturn on my printer
spavined upturned
and obtuse

ise got masscult extenders
like foam we’re #1 fingers
icy-topes of some
other half-life

ii.

don’t harvest ice from the pond
a rag said today
a world fraying yet
full of possibilities

there is certain extinction
in that mouthful
of rare melancholy

a splenetic marble
undone / over
chiseled

cast wax

vestiges of other
vestments & black
bile

iii.

saturn searches
for the dessert
child

(sense / cents / for a dying world)

What I’m Reading:

“Jan.24.2022

The funeral home calls and I open
your checkbook, a balance of mocking birds.”

— Victoria Chang / “Today”