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wet and sticky, throatflower sweet-
slices of clementine, chilled,wait for the mouth’s relief.

for vera
The landscape will have no meaningif you have not felt for it. I remember the head as heavy as it broke from the stem. Watercolors on a sunday afternoon, when I meant to take her handsand train them to paint violetflowers, supple bodies of dancersas they lay in repose.
I remember it because […]

the fans of our bodies spread outlike lace, the insatiable taste of it:blue, what the morning means,after we part.

Dear, my dear little Ava. Sorry Ive been away but its not for not thinking of you, of course. No. Far from it, I feel closer to you than ever, despite our aging absence. Youre doing bumper-cars in my brain, shedding sparks from the chicken-wire ceiling. Where I am now, Seattle, is a fine, fine […]

Etymology: astr- + -naut (as in aeronaut): a person who travels beyond the earth’s atmosphere; also : a trainee for spaceflight