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Garth Graeper



desire enters, parallel to the engine

out of my heart, into the sea                crossing
with the dead            waves, small and sharp
                                                  some faint

                                                  you are a stirring
this dark was different from the dark        of water
thrust into one narrow
vein                                  my own body
                                                  once was
filmed with salt, I disappeared into         a turmoil of waves
the million nervous
systems







desire enters, parallel to the engine

the first harnessing
of infection

machines for converting grass
into the greatest
killer

a single engine
70 miles wide


*


a pale delayed echo boom
the consequence
the long winters


*


a horse discovered by the lake
drained to produce a bright
red ink


*


she turns back into
an animal in my presence
turns further back and further
inside out


*


the white heat of
our rise, a new violence
underneath


*


only the toxic
and haunted remain
through the acid end
the immense
end

mechanical hearts
in exile







count and track the movements

on both sides of the silent
river, you hunt
for the dread


*


drums breed in
the blood

sacrament
is wreck

meaty

slow leaking
down


*


three nights of heartbeat
pumping, your body
entering and
leaving your body