House Ghosts
Just you there, apparition, pulling
arms
out of all the human bodies. Babble
headed right over on legs
stilling the stools’ a-sitting. There
is one way to tell the difference
between
true love and true love.
*
Smile’s a rage-rage cage yr
lips a belt. And there I was inside
of yr throat. Incisors plane-work
-ed my shoulders. Scalloped necked.
All-face taken in past yr face by yr
face. Flood the creek of yr mouth when
you pull
me right in.
*
Speak-nothing-cold saved Siberia and
prayed all damn night’s conspicuous
dress that mentioned a rain dance
chant’s
election night slight. Just
sat-damn a river-up right up to
reservoir.
Speak right into the cords of my mouth
cords speak right back into yours. I’ll
pay off yr
debtors, hum the locked lines
together, throat / tug
-eye / tug / throat / tug-eye. Yours
and mine and
mind a tether.
*
Byway, the shelf of yr noggin, be
place.
Hot plate to hot plate fixed a
guideline for every
room you’ve ever entered. Jumped in
midway
the good and played up. The notching of
that last
door frame bonked yr head straight on
as if
from above. And when sleep be not sleep
be but
the joiner. Yr feet yr feet again
closed eyes paste eyes of the hall of
that one
house that one time. Impossible dare,
forget chance
light switch location after light
switch found. Last time
always the first, the last, and next
ghost house to be next
house ghosts.
*
Moon’s explosion. Night-light begets
night turned
the you of me all coastline. A cracked
in half turtle
all eaten out of its shell left a foot
or two feet clawed
to almost gone. I’ve watched a hawk rip
a fish right
from the water and pull that fish apart
above my own
head in sky in a tree. When you place a
suicide eye on
top of a suicide eye they are suicide
eyes. When the
mantle inside the house falls into the
fire, the fire,
the fire.
*
The by-heart-mandible served the
severing
through tongue bite turns tongue into
tongues.
Failed language allowed its violence
entire. When
speech speaks, the world’s wars are
something it
says. How my jaw just hangs in the air
exposed
the no skin to cover skin falls off the
face of yr head
to teeth freeze outside the house in
winter. You ate me up
more then you at me up. When yr owl
heart speaks
it sounds like an owl.
Posted 01/02/15