from Reasons To Say I

 

 

Decades later, in a boat in the snow, I wake up wanting. Don’t ask

me if it really happened. Often you’re alone in the world and you

just know it. Compare it to the impostor in your bathtub.

 

 

*

 

 

If you look closely at the world you find red ants underneath. &

stillness in the afternoon. & Jesus Christ smoking cigarettes. Who

tore the photographs apart? I like these faces. They look like real

faces.

 

 

*

 

 

I see nothing I could show you is a religion. Wind comes from no

direction. A ghost is in possession of its chair, a ghost is a fixed

point of departure. In another version of the same story, I turn god

back into a word and it feels correct. I am toys bobbing in a

swimming pool.

 

 

*

 

 

The hills are said to be breasts, and the cowboy lies down. The

planet is hot if you want it to be. One crow speaks out of context,

out of context I could be your mother. Who put me here with my

shoes? The end of the world is an old joke. Everything feels the

same except horrible. Tea pots raining down.