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Hook and Tumble

from the engine of more by miscellaneous owl

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The lilies come
Like an invasion
At first a few
And then a thousand

Their thick perfume
Licks the doorways
Gold pollen dust
Stains you always

I gave you nothing from my life
I gave you everything
Opened my heart with a surgeon's bloody saw
To give you poetry, to give you anything at all

The dog doesn't know
That she's dead
He keeps on waiting
By the bed

The vultures circle
The vultures peck
They suck the sorrow
From my bleeding neck

I gave you nothing from my life
I gave you everything
Opened my heart with a surgeon's bloody saw
To give you poetry, to give you anything at all

I've been eating all the oranges
The kind she loved when she was alive
I've been following her ghost
Up and down the Massachusetts turnpike

I unspooled our story
Turn by excruciating turn
Pulled the poem out without breaking it
Like a Guinea worm

Something beautiful, something meaningful
I want to leave something good behind
I'd give it all up for one day with her
I just want to go back to when we had time

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from the engine of more, released March 4, 2022

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