WORK FOR LOVE volume 3

what I do I do with my days? I offer them anything.

like a baby who mouths a junebug
I would without question naturally

broom fondled to the fuck of my thinking
rain whips a roof’s slate
I swallow liquids uninterruptedly

insects tilt and float 
let all things be in the house, I say
incline to damp air, saliva
residue from the root of a shoe

eat if you’d ask it
give it up to god
give it up so fast

envious of spit in the pan 
when it gets greasy
envy the floor’s relationship to humility

a window whose vision seeps
overgrown with asymmetry
no one, no one, 
no one 

nothing is too precious 
discovering twigs in clean sheets

today I will lotion myself expertly

and refer to middle floors
and the deeper floors 
in the fuck of me

to love where love’s only an obstacle--
it’s too easy

the sky opens hard and quickly

I acknowledge it got destructive which is true

tell me you love me
not once, not twice 
but in such repetition
the neighbors still hear 
in memory

stretch into vacant morning
feral to a form taking place 

to be inlove, inside love
wanting every grasp

into each other
so heady and consuming 
it can only exist in moments

how perverse
how optimistic
white sheets were

you say no
say my name 
say
love you

tell you I want a baby of you
when I wouldn’t wish birth
on anyone

arriving again at myself, how hateful
tonight I feel nothing but disgust

I am the bed, I am the wall
the whole room 
with the sound of 
fuck you, fuck both
our names

I ash your cigarette, hand it back

lucky against memory

morning has again blinded me 
I make an attempt at hatred
but having decided it’s you I love
hate is lost to my inability to see 

one day, one of us will make sure
to never meet the other again

tell me in sadness, who is it that you love

before time alters

it could’ve gone many ways
but it went how it went

I fell back asleep in your bed 
as if to experience the day twice

bare in early sunbeams 
circular drip over coverlet
refusing the shower’s wisdom
to let sleep take me again

how I dreamt in only
a continuation of days 

is time judged
or is time felt

we pulled apart distances
lunar hours, phases
before fate intervened

some see time as a soul’s expansion
some say we don’t exist inside time but are time

no longer checking bills
no longer paying accounts
let sleep do it for me

I say time is an effect of forgetting

in all my dreams you appeared
as alternate versions, not quite you
as if I knew too much

from presence to memory
I no longer cared
what happened to my body
or an idea of a future I once had
all that mattered was returning
to sleep in your bed

even if we never captured
a life’s shape together

you invented new styles of fucking
not a space to move through
but a way to sequence flow 
existence occurring irreversible 
from past, present eternal 
through to future

if I were you, I’d’ve been exhausted too

fate returned by way of separation
one or both intervened
in time as money alone

left with love’s image 
in all its early beauty

in some way I’m still there
or your bed is here,
where I’ve remade you
a poem 
clouds the astral window

a virgin moon
clings to daytime
barely perceptible

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