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But I think the morning had it right
With what the moon told it.
For fox spirits are quick,
And all that much more desperate
To give up what makes them weak

The promise I made years ago to give up all attachments / how much I’ve accumulated: wrapping paper, dishes in the sink, the layers of clothes hung on a chair in the living room. Sleet blurs the boundaries between these days of...

Outside, the live mandibles carry
another missing body one mandible closer
to the edges of that heat-world.

I hum & hush my legs that shake & shake & shake & rock-a-bye baby. Nurse my- self with flu medicine & tangle in a comforter. My pupils fixate on the fulcrum of my pain; the darkness bends, captivated. This...

for fifteen lily blossoms,
all but two still closed
awaiting their time
when they will relax
in the warmth
of late afternoon

Conceived late winter, the lowlands of Alaska. Our mother, & Dale his father, tended to the cabin of an elder couple. The neighboring river overflowed with ice, the current broke through—swollen— flooded fresh territory...

Death took a holiday, observing:
If they’re all standing outside,
Does that mean the building’s empty?

After the autumn beings drift into the forest where sounds eat each other, remember not to look at the trees. (The trees are just the moments when you shivered the deepest.) Hide your voice’s fjords. Learn the hopelessness of...