Arsenic Lobster poetry journal
Issue Seventeen
Summer 2008
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The Forgery of Heaven
Carand Burnet

Granted, this frost might as well be
any piston
with the wind grating so
it could harden the lungs
lovingly
      down Park Ave
      crystalline roars
      and lion entryways
      I know a woman who only
      wants to be transparent
      like the air
her chest throbs so it graphs
the rib-canyons
but she prefers it to pound
it reminds her of existence
at four in the morning
she is there for the people
that dial in too late
extracted from leaf veins
entombed and
      cloistered
      in ashen facets
depression is translucent
florescent like the filmy leaves, not black,
what splendor is in the fern's spindles
breaching like a foamy crest
searing in, reeling out,
even the birch can count it's own rings and
feel that thing in the room
Its time to come in the same way we came out-
With no white ever in our eyes.

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