Sunday, March 16, 2014

In the Room of Eyeless Wishes


When we drink
Blindwhite noongall all
The unutterable names
Teeter at the inmost edge then

Fall like unfeathered stars countlessly
Fleeing nightward

Hard-silenced glottal-stops
That never know
The intimacy of tongue and teeth

And what of the damp trembling uvula?
O christ that voyeur of the mouth!

Our songhooved tongues gallop one
Against the other

Our psalmsharp teeth cut
Asunder even silence

Perhaps it’s true
Beheaded light
Conjured us here
A shelter from soul-hail
As if without us
We could still be we

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