Nick Twemlow
[safety just a]
safety just a bridge from
which to view the absence
of safety wicked
little dieing self die
a lil’ softer I learn the Ongoing
Resuscitation for primsy you rent
slaught, beef-jerky illness invader
knocks your builded
eyes your
hazy gaze your gilded, lazy
finished
[stunning wheel of sympathy]
stunning wheel of sympathy turns
for you, for you
outpost where the mind flips the record
demon-stunned I miss you, drowsy azalea, froth-tipped
metabolism lifting
2 plates + the bar getting
stronger each weakness I stun the petals
submission
[though other infractions]
though other infractions pale thee I
don’t
seek retraction consider
the stutter dusk
migraine’s ladybugging afterimage I can
never get to R
but after, along, day I pitch a tent on the scud
daybreak