11. Hermit Kingdom
bags were
emptied
and reified and
left
be-
hind
in my Sunday
suit
in bed
with Jeom-
Sook
animal
planet on the telly
mainly excited during
slide-down
animal tilt
side-
ways &
ver-
tical
blow-
job
with
swallow
bite
my little
tit
in-
spire
trans-
pire
em-
pire
can’t
get
out
of bed
except
to eat
Korean
pizza
with
hot sauce
12. In the Beginning
first birth has no grace
but a whelping
at the edge
of abyss
supreme clean
gums
all things re-
turn
in labor whereby
our only
mother
feeds
silence
in the manicured
garden
and first
and only
mother won’t
it be
fine
shaded
moans
roots
breaking
through rooms
the ghost-
ly
appendage
re-affixes
itself
and dear
mother dear
mother
crushes
Descarte’s
golden
flower
under
her heels
.
