(pull back)

little hands reach for
mine, careful and hoping
a happy childhood

(when they fought it was)

When they fought it was
like caverns battling,
mountains crushed to dust.

(poster sale)

postered boards, haggling.
the man with the black beard looked at me.
hard and so I left.

wobbly-kneed to the
apartment. I threw up and laid
on the bed, covered in mirrors.

(opposite)

I scorn you, you
moon of treacherous pearls.
He said, do it again.

To say it is
lizard tongues, severed, flicking-- the picture
not coming in words.

(ocean metaphors 2)

swan-like she dove for me.
her face was my own and I gagged on her.
underwater, piano sounds.

(aperture)

Illumination. 
Chain link fence in the moonlight.
A dog's leg lifted. 

(grunge)

cold apple warm.
a mother salivating.
belly aches, aches, aches.

(break form)

We were tigers running.
poem-crazy and blood-thick.
eyes for wolves, skies, fire.