Puncture
Matthew Milia
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Coffee grounds and awful sounds of parental bones breaking Rental cars picking up stars in the making Meanwhile the backyard has new knives for grass It punctures my bare feet And soccer balls hissing gas The night that the winds rose abruptly and broke the fence The unctuous world acquired a puncturing consequence We slammed the storm windows from inside the bed And I got so frightened when you slammed into me and said On the smooth tar behind our unused local laundromat A one-gallon plastic jug of 2% milk that Slipped out of somebody's hand on a shortcut Or maybe they threw it just to possibly see what White cream expiring on a black backdrop can be Sticky and violent or suggestively sexy Or blessed and infested with the creatures of the heat wave Stuck in the muck where our heaven had its street paved But it feels different this time around The sunburned bodies where I walk through the town Way upstate where I stated my homage To each organism that tasted the knowledge Of dying ecstatically each time we come Down to the river where I pierced my thumb On the sharp gills of the perch I was holding When all of the thrills of the search were unfolding For me The night that you proudly said you were immortal And I wondered out loud how that would be an advantage I said I thought death might be a merciful portal To filter the holiness that we pilfered from the wreckage Of coffee grounds and awful sounds of parental bones breaking Rental cars dropping off stars for the taking Meanwhile the lazy love we both outgrew Is reincarnated as a girl who tastes nothing like you You look different this time around Is your middle name Catherine now? Is your mother asleep in the garden? Is your father still weeping or hardened? And where is your bedroom that I'm made to memorize Where all the red fumes of morning will vaporize Where all the angels of sweetness were murdered Where the holy completeness of that song was murmured By me? I feel different this time around I'm not so ignorant to what I've found Deep in the crease of the least of my brothers
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