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from Somniloquy by Alva Dean

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I am a lonely lamb,
a disenchanted man,
mute because of the hex on my voice,
song-singer made sinewy,
my speech all cracked,
speaking quickly with my fingers,
punctuation actuated upon my chest,

I hold rot in my hand,
where a new flower blooms,
once every afternoon,
it reeks of sorrow as it blossoms and fades and forms the moon,
dead petals given back to the earth,
and from the soot and the soil comes a hurt,
sharp and short but deeply scarring,
like love unwound and then bound,

black holes in a kindness that is cracking,
stolen murmurs from a mouth rehearsed,
borrowed faithful words are lacking
any sort of regret to hope,
or could it be that we're all done mapping
the lines upon which we worship the most,
they led us home in the night,
calling us to cull the dulled senses from our bones,
dissected in parts and studied for wants,
anatomy of our mortal coil,
understanding of our foreign soul,
sutures set in,
fashioned from a languid thought,
they will keep my limbs together,
I did them myself,
I did myself in,
happiness is sin

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from Somniloquy, released January 1, 2013

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