Ebb
i:
the rain------
cometh
[where most we feared, a splinter
of windowsill]
&…
ii
pointed toward God:
“I have come home to you,
blue naphtha--firesong”
let us
paint silhouettes
out of shale
sediment---
ash, estuary
&…
iii:
let us
pull the sea
(a)back
revealing the once-swathed
menageries of black-gray
sole
[lost in torrent]
iii:
let us rain
down
emulsified
stars
in a verdigris sky
[restless
is the bird
falling
from
firmament]
iv:
all wild in what eye
accosts sight
&…
v:
Genesis
midst
the waters
The Sum Equals the Whole of its Parts
ask
what the vulture
pecks only want (?)
:eventually a gash, formed
:evening skin beckons
a headless, beakless, eye-
less
the wild loon
))with moon
in its sclera ((
what remains
has undergone haruspicy
&
famine in the liver
:a bloat of stomach
:a sliver of jaw
:the last emaciated remainder
of tongue
positioned
between the gnaw
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