Missouri Pastoral 12: Aixios
Vaping at the gramma lounge dry January
whetted : clams in saffron sauce bent over a bed
of fries oysters with shallots and vinegar [briny
kisses] baguette with cold butter dunked in
prev. referenced sauce calamari lemon lemon
lemon all our shells stacked
TOMATO TOMATO TOMATO
Laundry [where did all the tea towels
disappear to?] tied
up dripping at home sour fridge untorqued husband
Ennui
pink lungs
ride into town
hallowed
iambic plains
kansas
soft nipples
cold
fry hiccups
stale
popcorn ceiling
lunch
vulnerability
laundry
epigraph
TV snow
spleen
bovine
mountain mumble
thin
suet cake
spleen
couple
GODFATHER POEM
Horse head dead eyes empty
eyes silk sheets silk pajamas
golden cell diamond brow
T
T*
T
T
T
O
O
O
O
O
M
M
M
M
M
A
A*
A
A
A
T
T
T
T
T
O
O
O
O
O
* as generations
maze through