Interrupted Sonnet
you are cricket calling
flashlight / lamp / against the
damp grass — night air / dark eye
balling into the hands of trees
silhouette / you play with
your hair / on the phone
interrupt each other / the love of a cherry pit / seed dark
the sink is filling the tub filling
the pet-insults / we call each other
& still into the arms
you drop your body, then several books & then
ask for love — like a bird or a dog
in a circle you are made of the things you love — are doused — the mashing
of your affections — like wine makers they squish underfoot / are bottled / then poured
moon song
moon lifts us up
married outright
orphan at night
licks the strings
imitates love making
fakes orgasms for pitch
tortures the tips of the fingers
sheds skin / condom skin
Uranus shifts its orbit
shelters its pulp / face /
Uranus always mending
in pleading / wounds / with
old time folk music
banjo / fiddle / intermingling in air
& Phoebe Sings
“you’re holding me like water
in your hands”
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