What remains in the background.
aloe and bike marks broken string clarifying verb condom curls dust of suppertime eastern parkway echo’d gender in your back pocket falsified accent glass harp and your bladder happenstance interesting jest of your dialect knife fight lesson plan from ghost’s milk missed messages no old piece of callus questionable liar railroad tracks rubble of voice red dress rest stop on the way toward your country some blood some coffee that hash I almost smoked before we poem’d two bends and a fold u u u vondelpark wonder what would occur if you claimed me now x x x x your tooth zipper lungs and zipper grunt and the day you stopped calling me ________ .
Aimee Herman 