POEM FOR KATIE, QUEEN OF OHIO #37

I don’t know
what

your shoulders
crave,

what
your coral

flesh will
curl around,

but know
early spoon

you will lift
all of us.

~

POEM FOR KATIE, QUEEN OF OHIO #38

This population
is seconds.

You are one
whole second

to me. Hinge
the sign so

that the rest
of the shadow

can see you
as well.

The curtain
is yours.

~

POEM FOR KATIE, QUEEN OF OHIO #39

Lullaby, so broken
& full of the pieces

that could not be
lost, I am desperate

to have you here
amidst the mixture

as it presses
against the mixture.

The heat is coming.
You are the heat.

You could end
these small endings.

~

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