The Stay of Grief
Elizabeth Crowell
There is one boat out every day.
We are never packed in time to take it.
There is one boat out every day.
We are never packed in time to take it.
She flips a stool on the bar like a lamb
There’s so much advice
in the world, such as: if you’re feeling
very low, put on a suit
I made a call
and I lived.
It was the longest
life of my life.
Do you remember the names of everyone you swallow
One of your axolotls has eaten the other
and every week you clean its twenty-litre tank
of cannibal excrement.
i look like eurotrash
in your red sweatshirt
and blue sweat shorts but
tree tree tree tree calvin calv hobbes
A man was arrested for creating a labyrinth in an IKEA.
doesn’t know how to give a PROPER blowjob
The spittle
of the sea
otherwise known as Jamaica Pond
dries hard on her eros:erring:elbow still deeper
resonating
in her
I'm waiting for influenza in Virginia. Or the taste of something metal.
Tracey, what am I meant to do with all this shit?
Party snacks
platters of them
orange and puffed up
Moloko rasping from a corner
there’s an awareness of space, of bug spray
Girls with blue hands
I
Psychopathology
in the woods
Naked snow
Cold, bare thighs
keep the snow white.
Tie around a tree
Hide your ruby
ring in the dirt
Rub your hair
against the
Why Everything Is Everything
for my daughter
Because earth is spinning
and spinning and circles
a yellow star. Because
gases burning, flaring
above the poles we spin
BIG TIME
okay i’ll be doing my best to explain myself, to say i did the best i could with what i
had and you did the same my mom will be bringing home ice cream soon
she
Dream Vision of Frank O’Hara
it is 4:40 and I’m drenched in moonstone, sequins, fishnets, and general getting-out
of-bedness at the corner of 11th Avenue and 30th hoping for something
KISS ME THRU THE PHONE
trembling string between two cans
across town fry-gravel longing compressed voice-tightrope
transposed, delivered to you I don't know how it happens-
So Mom didn’t come with us to the grocery
store, but she insisted when a box of Grape Nuts
or Popsicles tasted off it was because we hadn’t
selected the box behind the first, that hiding
in the
Is this new relationship self-sabotage in disguise, or is it the cure?
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