how it is to get sober again
ghost vocals : a hummingbird flying backwards : silent
pianos filling a room : our caves coming out : an echo
party : watching yourself go numb in the mirror : the moon’s
liver : tin-covered barn in the wind : harmonica : muscadine
in sun : gold veinery : throat unlocking like plums falling
from a tree : saying arithmetic out loud until it becomes
only sound : music with no knuckles : dreams slobbering
at the mouth like creeks somewhere : blood oranges : three
blood oranges : water colder than it looks : horses lying
down for REM sleep : gasoline rainbows : april : leaving
the medicine alone : leaving the medicine alone : leaning
into little languages that work you : the word kill
joy : the deer at the cemetery : an arrow being drawn
back and back and back and : angels, duh : place where
key sticks : to love the stranger as oneself : to love oneself
as the stranger : walking down Seventh and hearing
their name : the sound of a TV through the wall : wanting
its voices : hugging you while you talk to someone
over my shoulder : praying in reverse : landline : eye
grammar : calf head stuck in barbed wire : song stuck
in music box : field thick with lightning bugs : a country
womb : the way a swing keeps going :
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