Ghost bees

And I know that you have an awfully big wound in your stomach and I wish, my dear brother, I could be god and mend it But god I trace your guts and wear them as a beauty mark tear tassel ogre heart...

The old man waves at nothing And I sit at the window with my legs closed Glory lost Hide your lesioned body hide your ragged clothes Your rivers of restored swords, goldfish, and metermaids were...

Last evening I fell for a vampire With brooding black circles A bleeding young liver Beautiful body of mortar and bile With lovely grey eyelids that long to retire Dreams of an old room With white...

you came tumbling outwards across the bedsheets across our mother's bruised, bloodroot thighs while i gathered courage inside the omphalos, too crooked and sorry to move you came tumbling and i was...

Guten Nacht I'll be dead before dawn Kind, mein Sohn I'll be dead before dawn And though your eyes appear wry and withdrawn I'll be dead before dawn I'll be dead before dawn Father! Father! I fear for...

Shekels for bones a clover for a better pair of clothes in the kitchen, she would read the tea leaves to understand the fateful hand of god shtetl-skinned and rosewood eyes an eighteen-year-old orphan...