from I’m a Cassowary You’re a Cassowary Too
Energy of coincidence
grows ever stronger
I watch Sissy
Spacek blue-eyed
monotone travails
“Why are you always
walking ahead of me”
Cassowary I could
ask you the same
Hell is full of brunettes
with lovelier
faces than mine I’m
shallow tonight and
often
Sleep
through rain Eat
bad cake Salt
grass The magic
of our terrible
world is that we can
eat cucumbers whenever
we want My brothers’
waxed hairless
backs Me plucking
away at my face
Cassowary cares not She’s
feathered with purpose
The harlot’s red car parked
across the way
We like her
When doing dishes
I hear the best songs
High to low
syncopated dirges
for daydreamers
Cassowary
they are songs
you’d like
Emily
Tetherow said “I want him
to owe me something”
I gift you Cassowary
that something Carrion-
scented flower beside
my bed all purple and spiky
phantom meat To smell
like meat in the
thinning morning That’s it
What I want Cassowary
All fresh Unhandsomely free
No you may not see the horse
you also may not ask about it
What’s stronger
than you is an ambush
of what you once knew
Colliding Cassowary
in my backyard
My ass more
delicate Aqua
sea foam green
polyester Rhinestoned
floral scarf in tones
of brown Red velvet
Men everywhere Bonnie’s
toenail moon
Lagunitas because I love that song
What do you smell
like Cassowary a cow
a horse fowl something
new or old I never did get close
enough Cassowary get close
get close to me and touch
I sleep too much
I sleep all the time I eat
I eat fruit too My dog
eats fruit we all do