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DOME EACH IRIS

Dome each iris, smear
up our foreground        irreversible
transmission the coal
has blotted itself
into a fleeing crow!         O arrow
of flatness permute your form
into the dagger which rips
our plastisphere            breath
from the other side
having uploaded itself
into a slanted lake
_________________opaques
_____our view
swarms of fish scales
organizing up
recruit all sediment          cypher
crawling out a glitch
in our muddy screens
unlatch the lines in our grid
          banks swinging       open
incomprehensible your soot
breath         residue I spurn
through each room         shift
the air                 inflorescent coal
and oil so lucky to invert
into polystyrene         bloom
dissident stamens
infrastructure smudges
under the weight of your hand
brushing the face of air        unbearable
adjustments to the purple lapel
of my face          opening
in your smoked wind

 

 

 


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