Flora

    fast by you

    body of grass
    black earth body
    body of an ask

    three billion years
    four billion blades
    body yet new

    when i lie still
    fast by you
    you find me

    //

    lipsblum and parfum ooze

    the cherries fell and placed their fingerprints
    between my feet like small mouths of a month
    of its here its a bloody wee well of a red whale
    her fluke-petals strewn long the grey and white tile

    and smudge of a moth in the blossoms to clear
    but im always her hem and im on the sore brink
    of love with the let-jet and inky-bruise style of it
    like my pussy would write her own un-willing book

    would underwear-stain me an avant-garde blotch
    of enfant terrible for primordial brood
    elsewhere wind-egg dramatic and lithe acrobatic
    some brown-wise residuum to raging en rouge

    sex-flowing battle and kiss-knowing cramp
    my blew-brewing worm of verbage vole-damp
    a crescendo howled in my bowling-ball clamp
    and how you offered to switch off the lamp

    so i wouldnt need to move at all
    so i lie lust-fallow-unfastened at last for now
    and i shower near the violet melati that you grow
    with slugs softly tucked in a wet toilet paper roll

    //

    🌖

    //

    after
    the easy way out
    saucy
    like a bruise
    cherry
    &c

    & the maskmaker
    who called lip balm that

    hot fast & the slow burn

    eat in the dark
    shit quest
    love fast

    sleep like the sun
    die like the day
    dream of your almighty face

    devouring
    in darkness again

    //

    its sambal tomat
    under nights black thread
    and the rivermouth on fire
    its filling but on isis time

    so i haw and fret
    to make counter time
    for my ligatory chord
    for my throwing bones

    for the holy month
    for otherwise

    //

    tempe & daun salam

    //

    🌒

    Indras net (what belongs to the familiar)

    around her head a sardine circlet
    around her foot mortality
    around her voice a glittering corset
    around her heart a memory

    she reflected on the dawnlight
    she was setting in her place
    she looked sober in the photo
    but you couldn’t see her face

    eye for eye and cell to cell
    did you knot me to be brave
    did you tie me from a shoestring
    toss my frame across the wave

    name the garnet in my cherry
    your horizon on the deep deep wine
    as i lost count of drowning
    for the promise of a rhyme

    for your blessed rage to swallow
    i was waiting at the altar
    and a pearl was burning bitter-sweet
    when i tasted your salt water

    when i saw you in the restaurant yesterday
    and you finally appeared
    Indras net was drawing closer
    Indras net was catching tears

    when you saw that i was deadly
    when you wrote my rib in two
    i was made and i was unmade
    to make better love to you

    and every lace undoing
    to find the heart of sand
    and every mark to fill the worth of a blade
    with the imprint of her hand

    and every glass was melting thunder
    to the predatory corner
    and a little death for the purities of power
    to the mountain out her window

    to the wildflowers evening color
    to the sky and sea and weather
    to the darker voice that rose
    to the horses all untethered

    she heard it was one million
    she heard one million seven
    the circle dreamed it would be easy
    the fishes knew it would be heaven

    you know my situation
    you know what keeps me here
    you know ocean is an islands final word
    and what belongs to the familiar

    //

    lyrics for conscience round
    music and idea from angles morts

    adaddy (of lies)

    she sings full coverage seashells for sirens
    on oceans stews of roiling fatted wine
    she forks her sunset locks for nobody
    her cockled chains abreast the silvered brine

    she quacks and its a salty bouillabaisse
    a diddys rouille on croutons midnight crime
    she lays to bed adaddy of earthquakes
    her morning simmering the sky star-peppered

    //

    lemon & roses

    //

    🌘

    photo of understory pinanga palms casting shredded light and shade

    tiger nest //

    laron

    pulse, on paper-smoke and shadowing; a word
    kept embers leaping, or whittling laced attention

    when the swarming cloud was passing out and in
    to the conic torchlight, flint-yellow, on a smudged

    and charcoal night; the humid heart grew lungs
    at the carpal joint, let choirs through the rupture

    soft cedar traces wrinkles into the maiden mask
    of the moon; the flickering phase transfixes them

    //

    🌔

    photo of fuzzy begonia leaves, vivid green with streaks of white and curled over to show velvety deep magenta undersides

    feelings //

    the good shit

    for Petals in her present pleasure zone
    she’s rolling round inside the one, the good shit
    the fine, the best, ye olde Platonic shit
    no hydroponic, just sanctified dank

    under Sumatran sun; for snub-nosed exodus
    in summers mud, her laurel wreath of sticky bud
    up drug botanical by trashy magazine
    like chocolate pharma-chronic feuilletine

    and toke thine truffled nugget whilst ye may
    my silk-eared pig for liplined valentine
    today her carrot conversation hearts the play
    her eats the emptiness of tools as feels divine

    //

    E=m11!1

    //

    🌒

    photo of a two vines growing out of a bed of begonias, up a white wall, somewhat entangled

    crossing //

    close-up photo of a begonia female flower stem after the flower petals have fallen and left behind ripening seed pods

    ovarian //

    Socrates: by Hera, it is a beautiful resting place

    this platanos tree is hugely wide-spreading (amphilaphes) and high (uphelos); and of the chaste tree, the height and the dense shade are entirely beautiful; and as she holds on (echein) to the cusp (akme) of her full bloom, she supplies such a sweet-smelling place; and also the graceful stream is flowing under the platanos tree with exceedingly cool water, by the witness (tekmairomai) of my foot

    and by the girls and the statues it seems to be the temple (hieros/hieron) for some kind of Nymphs and of Achelous; and again, if you wish, the good breath (eupnous) of the place, how sufficient (agapeton) and violently pleasurable (sphodros hedu) it is; summery and clear, it responds to the chorus of cicadas; and most subtle (kompsos) of all is the grass, that it has grown (phuein) in gently to the steep slope, sufficient to hold, for one who has laid down their head, altogether beautifully

    so it has been the best stranger guide for you, O beloved Phaedrus

    // 230β - 230ξ

    held

    i grasp, i grasp, i fumble empty air
    my fever head green tea cat litter ache
    my cannot place the growing failure make
    my pillow eats the grass until i wake

    //

    pause for illness

    Socrates: (cont.) that it has grown (phuein) in gently to the steep slope, sufficient to hold, for one who has laid down their head, altogether beautifully

    // 230ξ

    ὅτι ἐν ἠρέμα προσάντει ἱκανὴ πέφυκε κατακλινέντι τὴν κεφαλὴν παγκάλως ἔχειν

    //

    of all
    the most subtle
    that of the grass
    that in gently
    to the steep
    sufficient has grown
    for one who laid down their head
    altogether beautifully
    to hold

    //

    photo of maidenhair fern, bright green fronds against a shadowy background

    maidenhair //

    Socrates: (cont.) and most subtle (kompsos) of all is the grass

    // 230ξ

    πάντων δὲ κομψότατον τὸ τῆς πόας

    //

    sound

    returning traces undergrounding borne
    as open airing round, roots longing light
    commemorating leaves inhuman voice
    midsummers dream, a choir, the covered face

    //

    photo of a way through a bamboo forest

    way //

    scent

    no sweeter nothing making than a flower
    sustaining tension, fluttering on the wing
    Papilio memnon round lemon-balmy vervain
    by ghost of anther’s end, the probing hour

    //

    Socrates: (cont.) and as she holds on (echein) to the cusp (akme) of her full bloom, she supplies such a sweet-smelling place

    // 230β

    καὶ ὡς ἀκμὴν ἔχει τῆς ἄνθης, ὡς ἂν εὐωδέστατον παρέχοι τὸν τόπον

    //

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