The Night I Slept in Your Throat (an excerpt)
July–August 2011
sleep jars
of unnoticed laughter
watch
your mothed fingers
untie
a midnight chorus of edges
unhinged
we arc backwards
one thousand paper cranes
asleep in my mouth
forever tracing the edge of your stillness
the night I slept in your throat
climb into my breast-knot
let go
let go
let go
crawl me
to a place
of near…