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Front Cover:
     Still Baling
Inside Front Cover:
     Window View

Sequence
Extraction
Untitled
Portrait of el guía
Stones in Pockets
Dans la Rue
Uselessly
Whale
Stars
Untitled
Morgue, Cite Soleil
'Ninety-five
 disappearing
Mazing
Woman with a Beard
Untitled
New Edition of For Sisyphus           Released
Archetypes
Sun Daze
Deciduous Decay

Inside Back Cover:
     Dolce Far Niente
Back Cover:
     It's Maritime!
         
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Stones in Pockets

Gemma Rose Williams



Knife perched at the lip
    Like rushing river smashes rock
Configures the cut

or the black magic threatens
    the parts
    the chemicals
    of man’s matter
flows through the head
    and will drown the boys  (if done properly, mind you –
                    but i can’t do…)
the skillful surgeon will:
    scratch you
    tease you
    scrape you   
    slice you
    split you
    steal you
        and erode the blemishes - like a river does rocks
“you’ll get drunk on that blood” – that was the look at least
    the look they think we don’t see –
        the look of mastered manipulation – is there any other kind of –
of cut – push
    get off! get away!

    now alone?

    i’ll lie back   
    come back
“you’ll get drunk on that blood” – that was the look at least
    the look they think we don’t see –
        the look of mastered manipulation – is there any other kind of –
but who’s to blame when she can’t produce?
when the hour glass imposes her form?
the tradition of the lip.

but it all comes back to the river:
    the river that will grab an infant
        with no regard and
    swallow
he stole that river from us
    harbored ships for use
    industrialized waters lie still
domain over voids
knives over lips

the surgeon carries on the tradition
but is this about power?
    or pleasure?
        or the product?
or
Knife perched at the lip
    Like rushing river smashes rock
Configures the cut


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