Mother I\u2019m sorry<\/b><\/p>\n
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your backbone slid<\/p>\n
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down the doublewide<\/p>\n
kitchen wall<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
and surfaced from the sea of<\/p>\n
your sigh<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
he came on purpose<\/p>\n
to box my imagination<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
of what I should be<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
you<\/p>\n
should be carved<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
a lithograph of incubation<\/p>\n
buttressing the hatch<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
if lithograph was<\/p>\n
another word for a sore<\/p>\n
version of self<\/p>\n
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myself the residue<\/p>\n
an exit<\/p>\n
into the world which maps<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
without knowing what<\/p>\n
direction to flower<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
according to the apple core<\/p>\n
you created<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
a Disney world dose<\/p>\n
of make-believe blankets<\/p>\n
the want of a family<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
to be to be to be<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
ravenous as 1000 mothers<\/p>\n
who find me smoking<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
pot on the church steps<\/p>\n
and everything else<\/p>\n
not a kid at all<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
not ten fingers ten toes<\/p>\n
but a manger<\/p>\n
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stranger<\/p>\n
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than any baby can king<\/p>\n
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Advice to My Brother About How to Forgive Our Father<\/b><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
Dear brother the trees<\/p>\n
in our father\u2019s lungs are hung<\/p>\n
with white sheets<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
rip them down one by one<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
by fist or tooth or sighing child<\/p>\n
by pictures by eyeholes<\/p>\n
by murderer\u2019s mug shots<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
if you stop to question the moon<\/p>\n
it\u2019s already too late<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
to be a sun in that black<\/p>\n
absence be a sum of fears of<\/p>\n
being a son of his breath and<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
close the gate behind you<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
you strange lumberjack<\/p>\n
you digger of drunken night<\/p>\n
you forgetful fuck you go<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
into the monster\u2019s frightening<\/p>\n
daylight like I have done Mother I\u2019m sorry your backbone slid down the doublewide kitchen wall and surfaced from the sea of your sigh he came on purpose to box my imagination of what I should be you should be carved a lithograph of incubation buttressing the hatch if lithograph was another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nShipman <\/strong>is author of Cat Poems: 17 Wompus Tales and a Play of Despair <\/i>(forthcoming from Kattywompus Press), Romeo\u2019s Ugly Nose <\/i>(allography Press), Human-Carrying Flight Technology <\/i>(Blaze VOX), the chapbook I Carved Your Name <\/i>(Imaginary Friend Press), and co-author of the chapbook Super Poems <\/i>(Kattywompus Press). <\/i>Latest poems appear in journals such as H_NG_MAN, The Offending Adam<\/i>, PANK, So and So, Spork <\/i>and TENDE RLOIN<\/i>.
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