Keith Higginbotham


Calibration

Joy fingerprints that special
cancer over. Joy yellowed raccoons
as in lapel. Joy first nicotine
to.

Yellowed home now, a where you
mute stairs on. Shoeblack
bouquet won't moon the carry.

Attempt any old
of daylight, torture on dusk’s
broken down black
forms, senile the
sheets spit-shined I shied away.

We demonstrated
underground, layered a tenor
of mud, carried noise no
one shadowed in.

I may sway new grasslands
out of glass, and you return the solar
chapter roaming frame.


Threat Painting

a. a

               wound garden
               that, chemo walking to: bit wrists

               mechanical

orchids
was.

               there the dog brings
               sit there clumps
mire reliant as or

               limited with:
around nativity
eyes of

hooked
Foucauldian out

               cover syntax day—in
can space grow script myself
scarce

               space
just is

*

arrive as remaining
               against the
               strength
them

burned; up if on
without couch or

               raisin axe late
               man

prepared is
fragile swims

isn’t though old beds
base separate

*

               metal with
               dandelions

out abandoned
               pushed
everything note

black of

water plenty
               cardboard
               door

hearth clouds dragged
up having
poker     citrus
extreme

*

never bucket back the
               smoke auction

               the space rumble that

Renaissance—buying spiraled;
parched

waving ex-pores—a
               text hole

aspect
man flakes

best button toward the post-
               peacock sun


Fur Piano

Imagine not wanting a haircut
static crown, or
barbs from cross-

hair into the fitted
exact

haloed prophets. We switched sides
at strand light constantly
as numbers spiraled
a glued
high
necklace, the divine
leaf time—

then to
the oo in moon:
dreamscapes cut plains past

smithereens.

Un-west the carriage
poem; the laminated
machine eyes
the tragedy of names through golden
rain

muffled with roams.
 
 
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