In the new motor oil,
I found your crumpled jute tote bag.
I looked for you through
the lilacs and red briars,
but already there was
nothing but a hallway of feathers
where you’d run through the stiff.

It was the kind of Southern summer
where old masculine air hangs on you
like a mink stole made of unwanted tongue.
My house got moldy, and then my hair.
The mold was a spider on a crucifix.
I burned it and my eyes in silence
with bleach until only the whites showed.

-Tay

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