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tell your mama,as she kneads her dough with floured hands,how we fairies glint in evening light,how we tell you tales of a world beyond the veilof stomachs that never hunger,...
Mama Gonna Fight
tell your mama,as she kneads her dough with floured hands,how we fairies glint in evening light,how we tell you tales of a world beyond the veilof stomachs that never hunger,...
Crouching by the streamIt whispers the names of drowned childrenA list as long as the stream itself The names are luresTheir hair swirls over their faces, their pink mouths openThe...
Hook
Crouching by the streamIt whispers the names of drowned childrenA list as long as the stream itself The names are luresTheir hair swirls over their faces, their pink mouths openThe...
Stir up chains in a big pot.Stick it on the stovetop at high heat.Pepper in some silver dust and witch-hazel. When the metal half glowsAnd your forearms burn from stirringDump...
The Changeling Answer
Stir up chains in a big pot.Stick it on the stovetop at high heat.Pepper in some silver dust and witch-hazel. When the metal half glowsAnd your forearms burn from stirringDump...
barefoot sprites bewareunderneath bright autumn leavesstarving leeches wait
barefoot sprites beware
barefoot sprites bewareunderneath bright autumn leavesstarving leeches wait
…first we find you: dishwater, grayed overnight and thickened with leftover cottage cheesestray hairs, threaded from your brush and rolled into black licorice braids the sweat of your upper lipdewed...
what we eat when
…first we find you: dishwater, grayed overnight and thickened with leftover cottage cheesestray hairs, threaded from your brush and rolled into black licorice braids the sweat of your upper lipdewed...
When you talk, another mouth opens,lower, half–way down your throat,with a long tongue and ugly clumpsof prehensile, yellow teeth.It licks its lips, savors what’s to come.A cutting comment or two,...
Second Mouth
When you talk, another mouth opens,lower, half–way down your throat,with a long tongue and ugly clumpsof prehensile, yellow teeth.It licks its lips, savors what’s to come.A cutting comment or two,...
Before I met him I was a wolf.With the sun he rolled me over,his cool hands on my hot gut. He said, Good morning.I still love you. I remember the moonlight...
Werewolf's Aubade
Before I met him I was a wolf.With the sun he rolled me over,his cool hands on my hot gut. He said, Good morning.I still love you. I remember the moonlight...