Title

the army

ownership
of the sun
testifies

the uprooted mountain
leafs
into names

the river the ankle
the hatch
the shrub the talon

prison calendar
work squad
trench rope

a thatch gap
harbor depth
river view

water storage
vocabulary
for conquest

wrests from eyes
the border line
palpates

flayed eagle
corrosive
sexual flower

an emptying
by night's end
of habitable stone

swept out
of fluid city
a blood anthem

raucous
died in sight of
a rooster



  • language dissects
    a marsh
    binds the frost

    an invaded air
    chapel
    primary salt

    blesses the birds
    the foxes tills
    fences off

    angelic
    shell scrapings
    azure waste

    split harbor
    dissolved
    the letters

    a line of beaks
    flint stubble
    friendless

    crow starved
    watchman they died
    at night

    in brook sting
    washed
    weathered

    no time for memory
    to hoist
    the empty flank

    tracking a variance
    in the horizon
    the mutilated

    underbrush secured
    teach savages
    to worship



  • shred books
    the flax
    and stoneware mute

    obedient
    gangs a manuscript
    sealed bladed

    specifies locks
    and pits the unmooring
    guarded

    they erected interiors
    the lookouts
    half-napping shrug

    orders
    to watch
    the fireflies

    thick back of
    the crushed stones
    the sky soggy

    feverish nothing
    wakes the penis
    of the archbishop

    their wine joke
    bastard king
    the poor burned

    souls a giggle
    not me the hawk wing
    capacious

    mother's song
    a charm a village
    its names

    eaten up the air
    rots the sentries
    encumber



  • fever armies
    in drydock
    maggoty

    east of harbor
    talk noise
    before bleeding

    wash of bodies
    picked over
    in noon swarm

    inseparable
    swamps
    brilliant vines

    salvaging song
    the willow bridge
    moor maid

    hoarse in fumes
    the air packed solid
    an Asia

    of warning boughs
    the stiffened
    cove

    hemmed in
    by loose island
    swallowed light

    night hunger
    to flow
    or dislodge

    the trail
    fleshes out
    an identifiable ridge

    constellated
    past the shore fires
    a dark signal



  • those roads
    hollowed
    furrows

    the land squirms
    into betrayable
    knowledge

    the sung dream
    cicatrized
    smoke patch

    system of rivers
    grove droppings
    musty

    classifiable
    gesture a sold
    grounding

    marks
    the corraled
    underthigh

    erasure
    to negotiate
    progeny

    bayweed
    bone culture
    the breathed

    articulate
    stem
    keening

    a clearance
    voided
    their hillock

    scrubbed
    the intrusive
    syllables



  • the nerve
    curls
    at skirmish point

    she lives
    on the border
    of a black wound

    magnified
    by dewfall
    in ice forest

    whose spikes
    patrol
    the vein lines

    hut's rusted
    cameo
    makes covert

    forking
    bowers out of
    its tiny edges

    in downpour
    within spidery
    curtains

    she dreams
    her captivity
    her ceasing

    to make sense
    of territory
    an amputation

    halves the rain
    unmoors
    the fort

    as she mimes
    the brambles
    ambushing



  • itch
    to sniff
    sap

    the lush margins
    bastioned
    the twig heaps

    plucked
    from chaos
    by entitlement

    one's husks
    one's thick-knit
    gate

    interrupt
    migrant demons
    the antlers

    the fattening nuts
    crazing
    the leaf patches

    triangulated
    within a protective
    army

    the ruined honey
    thistle folded back
    against its current

    sprouts
    trotted under
    in the patrols

    bloodflats
    coined
    adherent to property

    a gummy substance
    hired to midsummer
    scavengers



  • the deed
    to the body
    trades

    name for name
    a penknife
    prunes éxploits

    makes arid
    the moist links
    tongued

    and drummed
    for memory
    a delayed pulse

    to wake the seeds
    prisoned
    in syllables

    the fence
    flattens
    the squirmy sky

    its lizards
    hidden under rock
    from thunder

    clarify
    the sermon
    who thirst

    toward sunrising
    for an inheritance
    have commanded

    sacrifices
    their coast
    slain by them

    unclean
    perish
    burnt



  • river orders
    the bulb slit
    the sac dragooned

    the skulled
    entrenchments
    teach raw hands

    to pacify
    to sand
    the cradled

    unarm
    the aired seam
    fillet

    its nub out
    into lipless
    ashlight

    blanketing
    the swell
    of blooded moss

    a torn stalk
    omitted
    from the world

    the history of tactics
    clogs
    the hairy water

    maps
    coherent
    tissue

    almost shaping
    "beg"
    or "begin"

    the morale
    pares
    child mouth



  • dead end creek
    rock blot
    root talk

    choiring
    a radiant
    veinless body

    sexual polyps
    encrust
    the prophecy

    in whose text
    ridged infantries
    flood

    in whose fathers
    the starved brides
    impeccable

    colonize
    industrious fenland
    with spirit grammar

    feast of metallic
    clamps
    shackling

    the membranes
    echoed against
    by the prayerful

    the new river
    waters
    the seed bed

    a cliff bone
    shears
    the sun off

    the builder
    refused the mansions
    glitter in holy war



  • dust hill
    mottled
    hulled fold

    the ribs
    drawn outward
    a gush

    draining
    shelter cells
    the salt shine

    the wet cups
    mirroring
    the burn back

    ropy
    signature
    flaked

    stagnant tablet
    sky pressure
    a fault

    edged
    into partition
    dying rainbow

    to name sun
    splintered spider
    baked wound

    impregnate
    abandoned
    silencing

    a loop
    a vegetated
    hiss

    drying
    its wind
    against the flats



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