➤
Walk into the mountains • if you
Shouldn’t then don’t
Enter the home of No One
If you wait I wait if I wait I wait
Bottle and that morning had
Seen him out the door • two strong men
The narrow bed could roll
No One took up a microphone
To read what he wrote
So we can be alone
So we rejoin
Doubling and halving the quantities
➤
Into sleep’s hole the living beings are said
To fall one animal as good
As any other (as good as death
I am thinking
O bathetic gymnastic)
A small town has a heated palace
In the school’s middle
The normative activities
Weighing the heaviest elements
Against the consequences
The scavenging angels
Hauling tightly bloated
Abdomens up and up
Tock-tock against the crystal
Chandelier droplets hymenoptera
Sad glamour in brand names
Do you see the chandelier was turning
Heavily inside its gold rays
Sound in a widening ring
rolled up against the gray house
Singing to be let in
Singing like a cat
To be worshipped our dead cat
You spoke to
Earlier this week at midnight
She was coming back
For the fiesta mama
When you die will I have to die
How fast were the angels going to break
Who did not wear lipstick
You were bored why that’s the point
Of postmodern cultural logic
The contemporary too is
Already post the gold
Skin they wanted to read about
The alien fuckbois’
Colonizing dongs
Bounced down our star cabins
With crushable
Velvet friendship temples
They wanted
To read the taut licked
Metal hairs sprung wildly
As though the elemental gem
Held them off
A bell’s tongue
Sounded longingly they
Thought this sound was a real
Shame having been melted down
The apple plucked
The human hands causing more sounds
More human than mouths
More mouths and more teeth more teeth nearer
The sinuses nearer the brain
Lo he fell (or low or lol)
In the garage what if he fell in the garage
Like a monster
Red engine in its crevices the dust
The fresh disappointment
Layers of it
The layers and layers the layered nodes
Burdock and crab grass and clovers
In Paris in Texas in Oregon
The sky when it walked
Sara Wainscott’s recent work appears in DIAGRAM, The Journal Petra, Powder Keg, BOAAT, Fairy Tale Review, The Collapsar, and elsewhere. Her chapbook of sevenlings is forthcoming from dancing girl press (2017). She co-curates Wit Rabbit, an inter-genre reading series in Chicago.
