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What surfaces? A sacrifice of words People his life to me is worth more than my own
People he was a gift he threw his body into it A grace-gift They will eat him
alive Touch violence become it I'm nothing like you
Wolf became one island I the other now dirty water surrounds us shallow rivers run
fast a deep pool dammed worth what's slain at bottom They want islands
They damned us Touch violence become it I'm nothing like you My Wolf hit
the road I suffered my beliefs then it was rainy weather I shrieked and
hid When that pervert called me out ready to fight our embrace a tree engulfed in flames
I spoke truth it felt right to burn I hated it Wolf my Wolf your wet tail between your
legs got that? my song is sick for you starved for ideas And you now Watch
me! Divider of nights our cruel quick thing drags itself to the woods It's easily torn
that which never healed The riddle of we two as one
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Of the fact this night will end You may hear nothing all night this night in which
fractured speech O gently gently something cries but is overcome
Alert in the night to movement and scent I scent myself with jasmine to smell myself coming
I will hunt myself here I weep in rainy weather drag myself from the woods like those
hunters who dragged the limp doe out by her neck I heard a child in the woods
shivering and wind and rain and a shallow river
You may hear nothing all night If you say blood and really mean it all that cheapness
shuts up you don't hear it stop but for a moment it stops See the trees come to light
white and terrible See the blank face I face now in the mirror There is a tyrant in full
dress in a windowless room the tyrant of our time cannot precisely be named don't
look it in the eye I smell a whip You may hear nothing all night like a hunted animal
and still feel yourself pursued
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How many dimensions to that rain drops on tin roof slow hiss of steam green
You Benedict Arnold, you cunt taunts one bird yadda yadda yadda says the other
The rock and hard place of that rain was being on each others' tongues unsayable
You took my body you claimed your divide mixed that stuff with oil or water and
pressed me a kind of crayon that blackened out our eyes Look at all this black in
bloom we laughed fools at bottom of a black river
We slide through the silver marshes sun pale edged in clouds I myself vacant all
eyes like a child to go to you now could be wise my friend you could loosen and be
wise so I took a chance at the wrong stop and we came running as if no history
prevailed upon us to restrain ourselves Medallion sun when we finished speaking
Then silence of regard for one another's loneliness You never know who you brush
past who you'll lose down that long lit corridor of night
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I walked to the river as the sun went gold the late sun shining overhead I walked
past the corn growing tall to my right yes I know the seed is impure Placing
one foot in front of the other I made way down that poorly hidden path marked private I
crossed the tracks under forest cover hung my scarf on a branch I stepped down into
that cold flow Nothing forbade me I met no one nothing except those clouds of
biting insects who would part as I passed smelling something exceptional some
dangerous brightness My blood ran with you still
you who made me inedible I waded freely into dark water I bent and dropped my
head to the current light rippling over the boulders What can I say about this
that is true? What can I tell about you river of bliss except I knelt in cold water and let
you drain from me and I had no choice in the matter yet even in that
There is only some truth or how well you tell it in this place still hung with wild grapes
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Go to the window wait for day If he has no window Please look here What
admits huge light by day admits a dying By night we're reconfigured If you're
imprisoned your window not a window breathe your bright burning breath into your open
hands But he is not glass he's burning matter Breathe burning on burning think
breath on black glass You in that black What's the shape of your pain?
What admits huge evidence of a world? Hello I shouted but she couldn't hear it
how the wind shakes a tarpaulin is violent in trees She had no evidence the earth
spins the moon hangs that even in the most colorless night the moon is shedding
such evidence That so much brightness we can't see She was sick without window
she may die alone You rested your hand then I was alone When night
traps you alone remember what I said there's so much brightness you can't see I saw
it in your hands Go to the window wait for day Daylight is our evidence
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Black wick me he is what flickers His medicinal grace my desire
They'll serve his head on a plate if he meets the hunt our bodies torn apart
Wolf you are I am that striking grasp of opposites Islands blood-rich Islands worth
our lives His head on a plate if he meets the hunt our bodies torn apart
Wolf-eyed my wanderings my dreaming it dogged me Again?
Rainy weather and I wept and rested When the untranslatable I fought my way out
some meaning was won some joy yet even that brought me grief
Wolf my Wolf I lacked for no meat it was my pining for you sickened me your
intermittance soaked my heart hear me out And you! Vigilance
committee! You all watching your property your itchy trigger finger why must our young
endure such cruelty? That man easily destroys what never was in union Our
song together
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Crimson drops in the snow my skin a blotched mirror I wept you Wolf
you slunk away with no tracks just a shadow a thickening I am tired of weeping
Coyotes here they say are part wolf they beat air draw arcs of migration with
leashless hands baring teeth to represent violent interbreeding So a taste of
catastrophe plays itself out don't piss on my leg and call it rainy weather You
a wound bit and licked yourself Now you say I broke you
Your broken body I once swept to shore so powerful my passion and patience
Your mind exhausted by pain I held tight I twisted fingers in your fur grasped your
scales gritted teeth when you burned me no matter I didn't let go Wolf my
Wolf I believed it I bore it are you a wolf am I what a wolf fears Wolf
my Wolf down on all fours I cry out: you are too close to see what you are breaking
The shadow of no wolf lengthens across snow