{"id":4723,"date":"2014-04-27T02:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T02:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/?p=4723"},"modified":"2014-04-27T02:00:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T02:00:01","slug":"2-poems-rachel-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2014\/04\/27\/2-poems-rachel-burns\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Burns || 2 Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

wooden floors
\n<\/strong>
\n 
\n 
\nplaying with the pheromone\u2019d opossum
\ni would retire the bioluminescence
\nfrom every equinox on my forehead
\nto match the hymns at my knees
\nit is the next month & there is no progress
\nwe all fear a vessel even more when
\na fever makes permanence. the
\nchemtrails have gotten closer chemtrails
\nwider than the tenacity of being told
\ni want to save you
\ni want to save you.
\nhold rapture & myth in each hand
\n& decide, knock on the door of a stranger
\n& tell them
\nyou will save them with rapture & myth
\nin each hand. naming off specific
\ndestinations, a month goes by.
\ni burn my weave all
\nover Europe this baldness, a
\nblue string around each hand,
\nreally (SPEAKER), are you good?
\n 
\n 
\n____________________
\nWHAT IS MY GENDER? WHAT IS MY PRACTICE
\nWILL THIS CONIPTION GET ME PITY SEX?<\/strong>
\n 
\n 
\nsometimes im so consumed that
\ni start licking salt blocks &
\nshouting profanities over the
\nfan, its like sometimes even
\nsalt isn\u2019t enough &
\ni could eat every scrap of
\ndried oregano & maintain
\na sense of Americana on a front
\nporch in a louis Vuitton snap
\nback like the douchebag i
\nwant to be
\n 
\n 
\n____________________
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\n____________________
\nRachel Burns<\/strong> has poetry fourthcoming in Deluge, H_NGM_N<\/em> and White Stag Journal<\/em> and is the co-founder or Similar:Peaks::<\/em>. She currently lives in Illinois living every 22 year olds dream.
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