Wet cotton cuts the capillary at home / via cinching tight around the waist / a slash / a s/ash / an eleven year old best friend / whose brother keeps her awake all night to tell him if he’s alive / he screams about satan in school the next day / and must be taken home / most dinner tables in the region are wry / they’re harsh / slash / overshadowed / by delicata squash.
The babies in wrapped white holler summer afternoon / the circus of the season / the railroad debate / the blanket she enfolded all around herself till she could feel her / thumbs / playing / with the white knuckle grip on the tin cup / the nursing of sweet juices / was good against / green bugs with white wings burrowed through pants elastic.
A failing marriage / calling for rain / they cancelled the pageant and I watched him grip her fat thigh / when we walked / his fingers got stuck with thumb pressed to forefinger / he bashed his knees / his old animal hide was showing / he’d let himself go.
Laser face / bring him up front / cause the lights / they shoot through the rocks / / / weathered bricks / boolean ladies screaming bread / calamitous johns screaming roughed up / and you wanted a puppy dog? / forget that plumbing dream.
the girl / the husband / the wife / the devil / fail again / at quelling the racket.
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