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Clack-bell Mouths

     By Michael Paul Ladanyi

 

This morning, you left your glitter
fluid city, clock-sweat history
dressed in wooden bird masks,
alley walls scrawled with catholic
pained hymen wound-paint.

 

November leaves are a frail-bone rotting,
olive-spider mountains are bruised
paper coins, windowsill puddles
in scarred yellow.

 

You have drowned pocket-finger names
you’ve threatened to murder
yourself with; now you are
long hair in clack-bell mouths,
sugared morphine across coffee tongues,
hazel-winter heaving that smells
like wax and worn cotton.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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