cavemouth

CAVEMOUTH

cavemouth, cavemouth

all you do these days

it seems

crawl into the sun

and lay lay lay

after the anchovies r all

laid out on the rocks

after the wood is all polished

with almond and orange oils

the cloths all sewn

last summer

was a little different

that’s when I…

[cavemouth rarely speak]

cavemouth evaporate

into the clouds

and stay as long as necessary

do the thing that make the most sense

[cavemouth make dirt pies all the day long]

eats em

nakie most the time

brown sun browned

sharped my teeth

fir snipping squash flowers

and rhubarb stoks

cavemouth make homes

cavemouth keep

all the old loves in the room

let em stay and learn to cut

their toenails with their teeth

while she sing to them

and bake them bread

and catch silver sardine

n tomatoes in her claw

and they eat so happy

somedays they wait

till I come home

but know I asleeped

floated downstream

to a new place

this time one

where I carve wood roses

for the darkwood altar

twelve ahrs 7 days a week

three months through

just long enough.

for missing.

then with special gifts

n sufficient funds

for three months’ time

send word tell em –

loosen free the housie

an float downstream

I grab on and we float down

down down down to a new one

this time a good place

for my babies to brown

babies to grown on shoogie dust

beignets dipp in black coffee

in crimpd tin cans

one my babies

slearning on thugold trumpet

thother one my babies

melting gold trumpets

makin em into rings

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