1. Diamond Necklace. Tossed on the table. It clacks like glass hooves. On a
crystal pond. Held in the hand. Snakes across Neanderthal digits. Encircled
around ...
Kati McArdle
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Diamond Necklace Tossed on the table It clacks like glass hooves On a crystal pond Held in the hand Snakes across Neanderthal digits Encircled around the neck A prism, a daydream catcher Unsuitable for night This one was $7 Reflecting every light: fake incandescence reheated neon chilled moon water Without discretion And still you watch it, watch it From the lavender folds of your mind For such facets of fire and brilliance Can slice with the precision Of your own clarity
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Kati McArdle
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Rhetoric Writing Is abandoning a drink, empty, on the bar paper umbrella a stranded sunbather on a tundra sketching flowers drawing furiously in the margins of grade-school, wide-ruled paper sitting at a piano velvet notes that vanish like fireworks the sound when a feathered stack of music scatters in a hushed collision again and again
Alcoholic’s Wife I pour out another bottle; like trying to empty the ocean. (don’t light a match, he would probably ignite). Clear, inert liquid, always reminded me of stale glacier melt, Or acid rain, fatal nourishment that scalps trees to infertile bones All you have are days of sobriety, drops of grace, The rest of your years swell to a reckless tsunami far out at sea, A tidal wave that staggers to shore, intoxicated.
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