*
I made
a salve
to spread
over anger
that seeped
______from me
I put
the sun in wax
and oil
to tame it
______then went to
______the wells
______of my skin
ladled out
the dust
______I had
______become
*
I made
a mask
______with antlers
branching
up
into the sky
The mask
______is a portrait
that I wear
under the way
I look
______In places where
____________lightening has
__________________struck ground
the earth fuses
to glass roots
reaching through
the strata of
accumulated
time
Sometimes I imagine
______I am
______powerful
*
I made
a nightgown of shapes
____________to draw the fire
from me
A circle
______is oldest
____________A triangle
Is strong
______I put the nightgown on
lay in bed
__________knuckles
______piled
____in the triangle
beneath
my navel
______As I slept
a thread
______of smoke
______through the circle
around
my heart
*
I made
a small cloth
twin
but not capable
of violence
and I cradled it in
a bulb
that I put
in a hole
in the earth
I chanted
over the fresh-
dug wound
until I forgot
____________my
______hard
bone and soft
______sponge of marrow
Someday
soon
Someday
soon
Someday
soon
Someday
soon
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