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Kyle Brown-Watson: Too Many Funerals

June 7, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

My undertows are not the ones

I show you

 

Sheets of ice stained with salt and 

SPF 78 gunmetal grease runoffs

sucking back the xenon haze 

 

No shells

No towels

No balls of greasy dough

Not even the quiet closure

of junkie needles in you heel to

Mark the hours passing

 

that vanishing point

Where fingernails and

necks and teeth 

Conspire to meet,

Blind on February shores.

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry 100 Tagged With: Kyle Brown-Watson

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