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Thursday, December 2, 2021

Bernadette Mayer


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Poem [song birds take a bath in our elephant pool] 
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song birds take a bath in our elephant pool 
turtles don't come to our turtle yet 
sunflower cytology apprehend the weeds in our garden 
cytologies you mean & well there's poison ivy 
as in drew barrymore or 
dream creatures knocking at the window 
threatening to kill you on a snowy road 
and now the luna moth creeps along as creeks bring 
blue herons flying into flower 
watches like herons nesting oh! what mayhem 
we behold, so many Gnostic beings landing at our 
doorstep ready to start something or else 
there'll be a rainbow or parhelion or fire or 
with the party to put an end to hunger as they say 
in the old days and should we have a rent strike 
à la hoag's corners? what wilt thou? 
frogs and bugs and little dead farm animals in the 
hay, oh hell i've lived in new york city 
i know about dead beings like all get out 
of the sidewalks and burning buildings along with 
the living tho the living usually stay unless they're 
the living dead

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