fruchtnoten: the crunch of chitin body parts

how summer was a great orange beetle

spreading itself on the land
making it sweat making haymaking

men coat themselves making whirring flecks
all dead as doors shake white shake with it
the house of dreams
the obsolete work of making and shaking

hay that shone in the mouths
of the giant cattle

there by the wet ...................................................................................or dry river

of which we did not speak
with such mouths stuffed with hay
of how a man who went into a bar hollow with thieves

said what do you call a parrot
with three beaks
how all of it like that
will fade gibbering fixation
upon body parts
here because death

lonely death knows love better &, uh, wetter

now all your hollows will speak again

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