You think of fin de siècle decadence: perversity, death, decline, and decay—the rise of the monstrous
Nothing can stop the dogsfrom barking, not even
the moon’s new dress.
To win a free mattress, lovers must sleep hidden and apart behind a wall to discern each other by the cadence of their breath.
this heart, its caverns of somewhere laughter, its waking craters, its forest of knives. Dilate its thin pulsing complicities
He loves those first hours after she comes back.
I remain this tender, yearning to mend the flattened red wingage of every lantern fly that lingers on the stranger’s heels.
a lot of talk about peace is talk about talksand talks about the size or shape of tables
He’s never been on this railway line before.
not a voice—a trajectory of wings