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My Therapist Shows Me How to Write in the Affirmative or An Alternative to Writing “Don’t Kill Yourself”
stay kin stay kin stay kin stay kin / stay kinder to myself stay kinder to myself stay kind stay alive / I want to stay kind I want to stay alive I want to stay kind I want to stay alive I want to / stay alive stay kind stay be alive be kinder to myself be kinder to myself
Still Wondering if You Made It
I’ve been able to miss you, without knowing / if your silence began at the grille of a truck / on a state route at dusk, or with a secret / decision, or in sudden sickness I’d never learn
the first thing about
Parietal Operculum
Someone said your skin / is like velvet, which produced only a worn out / glimmer in the region, but when I touched // you I was myself full of ocean nettles, scalpels / and scythe, yellow and deep rose, forest green.
Ars Poetica with Amateur Tarot
While my lover the tarot reader is comatose / in the bedroom after a night of talking to a god / I could not taste or touch, I scatter / the cards across the living / room like spores
into darkness.
On the 56th Anniversary of My Father’s Death
I decide to join the resistance against negativity. / To celebrate that cancer is a chronic illness now. / And that an old family friend will be able to live / with his blood cancer, stage four.