Tina Bass

 

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break it up
and out           I
can’t imagine a day without words
 
greenstick splintering
un-boughed
 
Ich muss fünf pfennig für ein Eis haben
 
cheap concrete & shallow
foundations and no street stands out
from the next but there is shouting
 
long-marching from home
to the Top Shops
for milk and bread rrr
the stuff of life
 
Is-hard on the feet and the eyes and the heart



Vetch


purple sheen and flash
diverging hips risen
rose both flasked/flanged
squeezed between
thorny issues ripped

transcendent jagged flesh
dark jactitiations
versus liquid contact
nourish furling maggoty
yield

leaking through
calloused lung-fists
holding on to what
could be the last one
eyeballed squinting

sun sunflower flower
days from seeding
shifting weight
maintaining things    askew
as if they’d always been

peeling plastic curls
un-suffocating under
neath my heat my sex dis
orienting threads west
wards loose

clear-sky evocation
emptying emotion
with ferocious violence
without aggression
root




 


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