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plum

26 Saturday Apr 2025

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The rain made ghosts all down their shirts that clung.

Sugimoto’s tongue. Nakano’s crop beats

time, too. “Again,” iced through the downpour’s lung-

drowning hoar. “Again.” As Aoki bleats

beneath the lieutenant’s hands— Nakano’s

thumb draws circles where before none lingered

“Ai, but teaching what, strumpet?” Pearl-butt knows

what, could not say— Recruits held their hunkered

breath, now watching their Captain, now watching

this plum ballet. The way the lieutenant’s

lips brushed Aoki’s neck. From: “Shadow’s Yin —

shattered cum cup, plum offered, blood booking.”

From: wet shirts. Downpour. Sodomitic trance.

Crop beats. Teaching what, strumpet? Yes. “Again.”

willow

26 Saturday Apr 2025

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Moonlight strips striped her throat where buttons paled,

fluxed and veiled: her Moon Rabbit’s lingerie—

Her glove, Sugimoto’s lips— had prevailed.

Unspooled— Her puckered silk sot on display.

“Discipline, mother!” The lieutenant turned,

fallopian rope with shape. Aoki

burned. Eh? Aoki burned. Aoki burned;

became an altarpiece. Their twisted sea.

Nakano, through ghost breath glass that steamed

with her palms, flat as cold reflection. Mapped

how? Aoki prayed, reeked of sea wolves, still

circling. Twisted sea? Twisted sea? screamed

the piece, altar-wise: her Moon Rabbit rapt—

pussy willow— then whippoorwill’s will.

shunter

12 Saturday Apr 2025

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Amor fati, it starts like this: She bop

a loo bop a whop bam boom. Not Tutti

Frutti, but buggery none the less. Flop

sweat. The first inkling of pain. Booty

deep and spread wide. No, you say. O hell no.

But to love what Fate brings requires you to

explore. From the bar through the slush and snow

to bed. Batty fang. Caterwauling. Screw

shunter. Slang … as I pause before the O

of your ass. Hell no. Then, by turns, Rome burns

between your cheeks. Tonight we will transgress.

Call me daddy, stranger, your queerest beau;

bent, we say. Soon wild rapture will return.

Soon you’ll claw my flesh, shuddering: fuck, yes.

without

10 Thursday Apr 2025

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Venus fly trap. Pheromones and cock. Seed’s

heavy fluid. Stamen’s curve. Stamen’s lure.

Flower hell; as in, fuck, you sigh, your greed’s

drippage. As in, there! a touch of the pure

slipping three fingers in. Buck on the cot,

in the tent, with your parents by the camp

fire’s fire. The tendrils. The roots. The cumshot.

None of that is here. Soon your fingers cramp.

Soon you hear: good night, while the tent’s zipper

unzips. Cocksleeve dreams fade. Nature’s excess

goes on without you. Zero at the bone,

indeed. No tight breathing. No clit trigger.

Just dark. Just something out there in distress.

Something bestial. Something that can moan.

manna

24 Wednesday Jul 2024

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This time nude in the sheets isn’t a turn

on. To wake after a long illness. To

rise with no more ache in the lungs, no burn

in the breath, no pain in the bones. The flu

makes its home in here, much how I suspect

Gods do when they take over; possession

being nine-tenths of the law. Prayers to protect

fall all muted, hushed. With windows open,

with bed sheets stripped, scouring a vague plague

stink from us. As they say, “too ill to Tease/

does not Please.” This sick sweat. This rotten egg

fetor. Mumbles in my mouth. My disease

infests the air. Disease? Please, junkie jones,

you say, sucking the manna from my bones.

carnivore

12 Friday Jul 2024

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calling me home. You’re slung low in my guts

the way gods cradle a newly minted

mortal. Kiss me and know just how riots

smolder, vexed by their own fire. Chaos feels

nothing like that, being form and formless,

like blood, like cum. Spreads your lips wide, ordeals

of the soul require a gaped grin. Transgress.

Honey blood dripping no less. Carnivore

your needs. Betray your paths. You know I will

follow you anywhere. Your rosebud, gaped

O wrapped around a stone tower. Sink core

deep. That’s my Chaos to you; deformed thrill,

gnarled and scintillating, my soul misshaped.

lavash

27 Wednesday Dec 2023

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There’s dough in my hair, flour on my fingers.

Lick them clean. These fingers. I’m leaving.

Kiss me clean. Obscene what this finger stirs

in you. All day long you’ve seen me making

flat bread. Lavash. Song of cracked wheat. Fable

of dough rolled flat, slapped against the Tonir’s

brick wall. The dead’s flat food and what the skull

won’t eat I will. Breathe in all these odors.

Simple smells at night fall imbued with grief.

When you make bread, you make me; when you roll

dough flat you touch me. I’m leaving; come clean

me one last time. My lips, my flesh, this brief

hint at soul. I’ll be ghostly so soon. Soul,

love me like this: obscene, obscene, obscene.

notes:

Lavash is a popular flat bread in Armenia. Tonir is a stone oven used to cook the bread, similar to an Indian Tandoor.

construe

14 Tuesday Dec 2021

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Somehow now I’ve cheapened delirium.

These days I float with a fever above

my bed, staring down at my husk in glum

humor. Dear foul body, I want to love

you, but damn! Even cirrhosis never

caused me this much grief and it was killing

me. Float and fret. Float and sweat in a blur

of noise that I can’t construe while passing

skyward. Once I thought consumption cool:

burbling blood just like Paganini.

Black-flecked spittle was so gothic. But now?

Niccolò, when I said, “Give me an old-school

death,” it wasn’t this; rather skag, filthy

deeds and all that deliria might allow.

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Notes:

Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) was a violin virtuoso so astonishingly talented that it was rumored that he had sold his soul to the Devil for his crazy skills. Like Dunbar, Chopin, Kafka, Keats and Robert Louis Stevenson, Paganini also died from TB (tuberculosis). Skag is an old nickname for heroin. On a personal note, I mention cirrhosis (a disease of the liver from chronic alcoholism) because I am a life-long alcoholic who would be dead right now if it weren’t for AA (this February 18 will mark four whole years of sobriety for me). While my doctor insists it was not Covid and just borin’ ol’ pneumonia, last year I was bed-ridden for months due to a painful, horrible cough that wouldn’t go away. With the coming of winter I can feel, once again, something in my lungs.

corrupt

04 Saturday Dec 2021

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“And the Fever is Conquered at last,” Poe

proclaimed. Fevered bruise spreading; a blossom

cracking with canker, with necrotic glow.

Where’s the Divine in rot? It’s the problem

with a poet who ignores the mundane ––

After the membrane burst, flushed brackish wine

spewed from your leg; and, with each squeeze to drain

the blotch, rank sludge glooped out. If the Divine

rests in our soul then it’s in our corrupt

flesh as well. Poe’s Conqueror Worm knew that.

Fetid phantasma. Blight’s phosphorescent

twin. Ode to Gangrene? Cut it out. Worship

the flesh warily. See? What will erupt

in me hunkers and waits with a vile scent.

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Notes:

Apparently Youtube is awash in videos featuring blighters suffering from subcutaneous hematoma in one form or another, something that I find I cannot turn away from once I hit “play.”  I know, I know, “fetid phantasma,” is such a $20 phrase in a $5 sentence but it’s so much fun to say. It’s like the word, “glooped;” sure, I can use other words to describe decay but my world would be slightly duller without some good gloop in it.

refute

24 Sunday Oct 2021

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“Through the wall stole a weird form who unbent

herself and stood tall.” I’ve had nbodewbi

ghosts, drunk and horny, slither like portents

to my bed before. Sex, grim and ghastly,

is all that the dead offer. Whatever

you think about lust now, that memory

will haunt you. Ghostly sex is still better

than no sex, they say. Perhaps most don’t see

it like that. Hot to leave their flesh and blood

behind they’ll grasp at any fairy tale

that says eternity is chaste. I know

how our souls refute that. These castrated

ghosts can only moan; when you’re cold and pale

come find me. You know I won’t say no.

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Notes:

The first line is a reworking of the beginning of George Houghton’s poem, The Witch of York, “Up o’er the hill and broken wall/ There stole a weird form, bent but tall.” In Bode’wadmi (the Potawatomi language), nbodewbi is a verb meaning drunk and horny. I think Joe Orton summed it up nicely when he said, “Enjoy sex. When you’re dead, you’ll regret not having fun with your genital organs.”