Status Updates From Calling a Wolf a Wolf

“A man creates the most joy in the abstract, / when you can remove his actual body, / its shear carapace and bleeding gums. Cut it / away, the entire boring envelope, and marvel / at what remains: a pulsing vacuum bag / stuffed with rubies and bone spurs, a pink / lighthouse only barely heavier than its light.”

“God loves the hungry / more than the full.”

“the body is a mosque borrowed from Heaven”
and
“this is a gift we are given at birth a pocket we fold into at death”
oh man

"I lack nothing I need
unless you count everything I want I'm meant
to be spreading tenderness over the earth like seeds
like worms instead I've been shoveling coal
into burning houses fanning the ash hold your
applause [...] the penalties for my disregard
have always been oversoft deterring nothing
I've made it clear I am not to be trusted with a body"

"I am not a slow learner I am a quick forgetter
such erasing makes one voracious if you teach me something
beautiful I will name it quickly before it floats away"

"Everything that moves is alive and a threat – a reminder
to be as still as possible. Devastation occurs

whether we're paying attention or not. The options: repair
a world or build a new one. Like the belled cat's

frustrated hunt, my offer to improve myself
was ruined by the sound it made."

"how shall I live now
in the unexpected present
I spent so long in a lover's
quarrel with my flesh
the peace seems over-
cautious too-polite [...]

[...] I sit under
a poplar tree with a thermos
of chamomile feeling
useless as an oath against
dying I put a sugar cube
on my tongue and
swallow it like a pill"

"Without the benefit of fantasy
I can't promise I'll be of any use.

Left to the real world I tend
to swell up like roots in the rain,

tend to get all lost in hymns
and astrology charts"