infanticide sunsets
for Robert Creeley
spindle over the shoulder tossing gills
pulse to pleasure covered knees locked
gusher under sea, father flattens family
one must be a sniper & assassinate the adult
committing infanticide in us all
don’t ask absence’s offerings ask sandboxes
empty swing sets, slides, or the rivers full of kittens
the mirrors who’ve seen enough faces
as the seer darkness the sword stomachs
or the sea tempests sun horizons
condoms machines coffee grinders bone xrays
trunks luggage glass condensation gold thieves
nets fish: gimmie a break absence & i’ll return the century
a child raised right taking back my first stolen piece of candy
from above the andes
a spine of suns across the seas
exhales absence on my arm
breaks cloud wakes
hiding heavens’
placidity abandoned here when
sun evolved
soot books
you have machines to read
drones to rove
all hours
their hours
army of earth liberated combustion the globe smothered internal
our callouses refused
debts acquiesced
this blaring silence
jets us hands to dreams
fusion pursed
sun pets our hides
river lassos my larynx
constricts blood
tugs these buoys
bobbing in the tide
we must not survive
america
I’m the styrofoam
sleepyhead to seduce you
icicle fangs
melt for sunrise
between thighs slowpoke round back
my morning attack
sheathes yr
heavenly chambers
go extravagant
delinquents
my sister’s
a slap
& the hardest kick
to the balls I know
the secret of no love
divulged
judged by behavior
bye bye love
bye bye savior
lions kneel
gazelles govern
& silent words sacrifice poems
let you down, have idiosyncrasies, dents,
favorite colors
and foods
why not the rum cake our parents served
at their divorce
now I taste
young
survivors
tucked like words in wills
the howling outside my door
does not disturb me
just as freedom makes the best slaves
Vincent Cellucci wrote An Easy Place / To Die (CityLit Press, 2011) and edited Fuck Poems an exceptional anthology (Lavender Ink, 2012). Come back river, his first chapbook, a bilingual Bengali-English translation collaboration with the poet and artist Debangana Banerjee is recently available from Finishing Line Press. _A Ship on the Line, a battleship-collaboration with poet Christopher Shipman was just released by Unlikely Books.
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