in the bone

in the bone

by Livio Farallo


hugged of all thrashing, therodent at the crumbling edgeloved by a snake.mountains push up andfaults bury forests below. the earthis awfully light-headed to stand on its own two feet,but eternal as a dune.and love like that,frozen. i spinas the world refusesto lie down. dizzy,i go nowhere.though i could translatejapaneseif i moved to japan.if i had the timeto outlast human diseaseyou would hear mewalk out of this restaurantand sail.

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Featured in our December 2022 issue, "Tenderness"