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Abandoned-meant

leaves
falls
stillborn child

When-her hurts

whole,
empty

empath–these

sur-rend at-ease

for-say-kin-dread

utter-leaves dread,

a just dessert.

Give up self,

hands upside
down molting from chicks’ bones
of discontent.

Withdraw

mirror’s picture when-doves die tiny eggshell white-
washes glass

breaking control
of image
yielding without restraint or moderation,
relinquished,

languish

unreleaved
winter-tree

James La Croix

“Where’s the money, Daddy?”
Ghost haunts my pockets.
Veins torn open fender.
Redhanded, roseblood

bloom. Pearl spasms broken
choker, of

James La Croix

Full moon odalisque,
Street light transubstantiated:
Sheets’ priestess.

James La Croix

Birth of Venus on shell ears.
Kiss shucking lips from tongue swimming
the tropical sea mouths transubstantiate snail

Eyes wander
Fingers find Summer
Twin pale fruit purses overripe
love’s luxurious currency

Would-wind sigh music flesh-Braille
played pizzicato jazz honey
dew her twenty dollar
lap dance…

Time’s fingers flames
appropriate flesh and fossil
photo fetish raven hair

April’s greening orchard
beds Eve’s apples
bleeding

peels gilt of morning
steals gold rings
rolls them gone.
Time’s fingers flames
appropriate flesh and fossil
photo fetish raven hair

April’s greening orchard
beds Eve’s apples
bleeding

peels gilt of morning
steals gold rings
rolls them gone.

James La Croix

April’s greening orchard

beds Eve’s apples

bleeding

peels gilt of morning

steals gold rings

rolls them gone.

James La Croix