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Copper Sea
02:56
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With turtles and with toads
You are shifted
From one statue’s pose to another
And held in place
Patina green spread out on copper
Little flowers grow between your toes
And still, when it’s quiet,
I hear you breathe
Now every cell conspires
To adore you
But nobody’s wires
Reach as far as me,
Not even yours.
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Starfish Arms
04:42
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Golden in the right light
Near black in the late hours
Soft when skin is showing
Held back when laughing lifts
Letting off our lizard tails
And starfish arms
Whittled down to wires
And a thumping heart,
We grow back
Pink as the skin under the scab
On your knee, waiting to drop off
Blue as the irises
Burned in my brain
With shining that stays
Keratin and coral reaching
Deep in molten core
We are sweetly sleeping.
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And the skin grows over it
But the mark won’t match
Or hide the blood from the sun
No guts will stay calm or content
Being buried in me
Make the cut, fly at once
From my body to thee
It’s a hell of a thing
To worship or grieve
What with all of the doubt in its seeds
I’ve been down
I’ve been down
I’ve been down,
Do believe.
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Lizard Tails
02:22
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Out Of Sleep
05:04
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Grooves of a vaccination scar
Wind along the spires
Of fires that fly
From a sun she set in ink
Moon’s a burning bathroom light
That flooded through a barely opened door
And blew the night off of our wishing to be saved
Light up all these days for me
Pull my shadow off
Pull me down
Arms curling like ivy all around
All tied and tangled,
Snake and eel
All flushed with blood
Ghosts come flicker around the bed
Sleep in their claws and on their fangs
A doubt as deep as atoms
A pulse when things are quiet
Beating now
To keep all of the saddest songs in time.
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Sudden Sun
01:00
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Up & Shining
03:02
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Oh, someone come
And eat me up
I'd boil in the belly of
Whatever word
Means all that love
At the water line
Without our clothes
And the sun coming up
And shining on the waves.
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Salted
03:08
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Salted after all
Red and dry
Set to split
Shook the tree for fruit
But we all fell from that height
Shimmy off the bone
Blood leaves the branches, besides
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Odd Notions
02:30
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Salt and ruin
All on down the line
The frame fits you in it
Here’s a coffin for the notion
Any part of you will feel the pang
The ground can’t grow our thorny pit
No life in it
In all that earth, inanimate!
A period to punctuate
The last few lines,
All ending way too late
Black from the root up
Flowers and all
And here’s a coffin for the notion
We could return to anything but soil
Oh, we’ll be food for other loves.
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The Grand Beach
03:25
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The light you left won’t leave you
But the rate of the flicker slows
And all the brand-new black
Seems sideless then.
The sudden sun will get you
And steal the lines she shows
But every edge returns
Follow none but the route of hers
All the way around.
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Matt Savage Cambridge, Massachusetts
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