FANTASIA FOR FOUR HANDS
Hello. This is my body.
It makes me terrible.
Someone opens it regularly.
It is opened regularly.
I am always the same thing:
what’s missing.
Make a sentence about joy.
Sometimes he is dying but he never dies.
Let’s say it one more time:
God.
I am so thirsty.
Here are my instruments.
I can use my own hands
to separate an apple into two halves.
The base time unit—the second—
a fly beats its wings a thousand times a second.
Ancient. Recent.
Song the past tense of sing.
O drain the killing fields,
farmer harvesting wedding rings.
Once a month the river floods.
The spring is heavier than the sun.
I was doing chores when the storm clouds formed.
All of a sudden the storm horn sounded.
“No sports for now,” said Dad. “We need to work
Until we are sore.”
Rain, will you read these words for me?
I’m coming.
I’m coming.
SELF-PORTRAIT AT 25
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when
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