Endisis Twin Foam U--

i. the dominant: absence

in your absence
this presence

in the reeling,
the cascading of your presence
along the desolation then
i am outward
much as 
the censure of your present flesh draws me...
much as I,
with the pretext of wandering through your streets,
draw outward, walk 
beyond the swaggering line of the roadsides
spoiling, threading at the top
like the slashed cord of a nail

ii. current
much as your stay with me
is absence of you
and before you the desolation stretches, 
baying the method of your current

closer still then the absence begins-- achingly--
to scab over itself-- 
healing inspite of itself
even as there is no form left 
of woman or depth
just the plugged current--

a drunken cord blessed 
with the  flushed hectic 
of an only name

iii. only name
blank--
as the shot of absence lifts,
bulging beneath the scabs of these nights together
then we start to ooze-- red
only separately-- red


only from the corners
only from the distance of our present rooms
and the windows loom above us
gaping
and farther still above us rests 
like a howl
the withered claw of a wind.

iv. my hysteria
sometimes-- in the daytime
(on days like this)
i am fortunate to be
hysterical as I offer you
your beauty
and I offer
to beautify you
and my voice trembles
with the devastation
at the sight of dawn-- 
trembling out of itself---
and my jaw trembles,
drawing backward
and my eyes jerk outward-- taut
with the scabs gushing from the sides.

v. and i'll
snatch you from my vision
and onto the bus
and down the train-tracks
and let me tell you
in all honesty
that i've been shitting tulips all day
so as to be just
bleeding in your name—

In the memory of A.B. and N.A. K.


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