loss, n.
1.
a fireplace heats your head | & the first house you lived stretches | your memory your past | childhood | at night—
2.
you believed a fat man in a red suit brought you gifts
—despite | you lied to your mother seven times that year | despite—
you bit your tongue until the taste | to keep from spilling:
- how a man in your best friend’s house asked you
- to strip | you climbed | his shirtless | torso in your white under-
- wear | the brown fur | in his stomach | the nipple
- standing hard—to your touch
† loss, v.
1.
how he unloads me:
discharge on the belly—
small whimper & my body
burning water
2.
vessel | &
wreckage |
swollen wood |