a lane is also an aisle. a ball is also a weight. 
            i bought her a ninety-cent fountain drink 
            that in her hands morphed into a pitcher of light, 
            a pitcher made of light full up with light, 
 
light inside of light, sharp pulsing brightness 
of a birth or a blow. when she drank 
a blaze ripped down her throat in one straight line, 
and in her stomach i saw cells take the light

flannery o’connor and i go bowling

Shards of bald cypress 
wreck the sky. Each night’s 
turmoil of feral hogs stiffens 
in mud. Behind the metal 
grate, the trapped boar 
swells and surges, all 
hackles and fever, tusks 
bursting the leaf litter. 
  
The game warden’s rifle draws 
a line between his eye and ear.

Witness

Behind the washed-out boards of a roadside 
stand and those empty shacks with windows so thin  
the glass becomes part of the room, lawn signs  
​ 
remember lost elections, their letters uncollected  
and warped with moisture. I’ve resolved never  
to meet these houses away from the road for fear 
​ 
they’d try to keep me, so I hold an even sixty-two  
in a fifty-five and watch the pawn shops fade  
to vulture feathers around pits of old rain. 

On the Drive Down

Though the internet claims 
it takes twenty-one days 
to form a new habit, I am here  
to tell you it takes only a single 
moment of choice, then a lifetime 
to unmake—powder 
falling up through a slip 
of sunlight into his nose or a loose 
handful of pills, dead white 
bugs in his palm; without sense 
of where his body began or how 
it could end he bent 
the world to his will: like a cartoon 
he traced his wants onto air 
and they solidified, he drew windows 
on his arms and they filled in with stars,

Portrait of my brother with his habit

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