cruel breeching veil
we suspire
the hiss and congeal
of your teeming little deaths
longing to
flare inside-out
remove the shale tooth
splinter prim limits
haggard stiff
the wing sways
from eu to dys
and the siren misses its voice
© Curtis Ackie 2022
Laurie Lipton, The Hermaphrodite with the World Egg (1989)
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