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...celia svenssons mother said...its possible to make two small flutes from the bones of a fully grown mouse...(seduction 63) | home titles links interview montage random prev next |
| that day your mother bought a fretful cow and saw john the baptist climbing the water tower and at night your father on a chair near a lake playing a harmonium the chair leaning in soft earth in late afternoon you me on an embroidered cloth saying this that see a mandolin on the lake rising falling moving towards the bridge behind the mandolin a pig in the arms of is that mary magdalene minutes pass you talk of grapefruits and celandines mary magdelene says bring me quickly fourteen dogs and a cantaloupe a basket filled with violets and fish the pig says behind a white barn celia svensson lifted your skirt while her mother counted mouse bones you remained unconcerned this was your home the first faces you saw are here the first skin you touched this is whereyou made yourself come in august heat on the handle of a yellow pump this is whereyou pissed on dandelions while a caravan burned this is where you showed hairless skin to a blind man who touched too dark now to see the stream walking to the red house near the lake your father leaning hands moving his back to the water hymns from his mouth and songs concerning industry and amputation your mother says he writes five songs a day the melodies borrowed from cattle and hornets later you slept i walked through juniper and fish scales found your fathers harmonium near a horse in early light i watched you wash skin lit in a yellow room i’ll remember these things when im dead and the unworn shoes i gave to the stream |
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