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<\/h4>\n

All Blue Things<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

I was once a chicken heart;
\nsmall, singing down the river<\/p>\n

I was once a standing bear; twi
\n-light claws; rainbow salmon scales<\/p>\n

I was once an aging man;
\nsat, watching them deliver<\/p>\n

Our whole universe;
\ndark, backed into the soil<\/p>\n

And one time when an old skin
\nhad rotted blue on me,<\/p>\n

I was a snake,
\na night-time birch,<\/p>\n

an elderly mother
\nof three sunk girls.<\/p>\n

They were pink skin
\nand purple-seahorse curls<\/p>\n

I was once the mastodon
\nin children\u2019s crayon scrawls<\/p>\n

Once the liver leaking bubble
\non the knife and board,<\/p>\n

or the feather fallen
\nonto Morecambe Bay<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Mango Bruise
\n<\/span><\/span>(a sonnet)<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Inside my right thigh
\nthere is a Neptune bruise
\nturning to
\nred moon and<\/p>\n

Sparse constellations
\nin the pores,
\ndrying blood
\nclotting stars<\/p>\n

And a sweet hurt
\nevery time
\nI send a finger
\ninto space<\/p>\n

This mango bruise\u00a0 \u00a0 each day\u00a0 \u00a0 gets more
\nand more, sunny at the heart<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Poppy Bruise<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

It came
\nas someone else\u2019s poppy bruise, but
\nnow has blued into a sort of
\nNeptune on my inner thigh
\nbattle wound
\nstarship badge for
\nshowing off
\nfor falling off the bike, now<\/p>\n

Fading\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0slow
\ninto dispersing constellations of
\ndry blood in pores:
\nclotting stars<\/p>\n

Sometimes, I like to reach a finger out
\nand press into the sky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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