Eratio

Issue 22

 

 

 

NECTARIES

 

Cody-Rose Clevidence

 

 

 

 

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nectaries :: has tempest :: o yellow—

o ovum & capsule :: u spaceship

2 the future :: Adonis I, mythic mightily,

ring species a crown my hell-bent absence & litany

 

a luxury of form.  cyber-

sexual opus expanding, uncircumcised horizon

“2 which rock crystals surrender”

 

but never will I // yield.

 

 

 

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androidogenesis :: ultra violet wing

of metallic ions, my galaxy

ocular lasso as finch chase finch

& cache crude diatom :: pursue

 

the impure gonads of the first night;

mock them.

 

 

 

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my nonsense

necklace

foam

 

 

 

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globe || ransom || halter

intermediary of need

salivate, weep, whatever

shuffle || coil || seed

 

 

 

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get dome u eyelash

testicle  ::  flinch

 

 

 

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o nova.  o blastocyst.  o universe.

o rimjob of th’ hopeless sun—

moon of a blank stare, stare back.

 

 

 

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barebackt in th’ winter of my horizon

mumbled something or something else 2 th wind.

 

 

 

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oh the silken internet

is lingerie 2 earths

vulgar apparatus

 

 

 

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anoint u of egret, dogwood violets teeth

pharmacological heartthrob in the cellular matrix

chemical raiment, chemosocial 2 th core

o anoint u of daydream or verb

megalodont, asterixs, (like midas but

th opposite—) survive, what wld it

 

take & even,

w flourish

or w

caress—

 

 

 

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this gibberish, look—

 

“ye mighty & despair”

 

is ish all like

who cares

 

 

(“not me”)

 

 

 

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abt yr eyes:

peel them.

 

u & all u touch

is made of snot

daffoldil of th sky

n all

 

 

abt yr eyes:  peel them

& wash yr dirty mouth w snow

 

in being, be by being “fruitful, &,

Multiplicitous ”

 

 

 

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shame // face of sun

 

I yield; I yield

 

 

 

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xtravagant finch is now

 

app thru 2 the constellations below my feet is now

 

the spinning world yields transparent

 

is beady in eyes & beak.

 

 

 

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roam, lucent cyborg :

hungry eyed quartzite O

lonely in hologram emblazoned mirror

of form dense w weight & urge; my animal sleeps

in the spinning eye of the universe; the milky gibberish

flung thru the sky : seek

 

 

 

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what sweetness

deep—

 

 

 

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dude, the bounty around us—

dude, the unyielding earth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cody-Rose Clevidence’s 1st book, BEAST FEAST, was released by Ahsahta Press in 2014.  They live in the Arkansas Ozarks with their dog, Pearl. 

 

 


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