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Collection of Poems by

Eden Trenor

 

 

OUR COMMON BIRDS IV

 

The eyes of the day are placed at the sides of its head.

 

The voices of the day are harsh discordant screams.

 

The bones of the day are splintering certainties.

 

The eggs of the day fall in chicken shit and sunbeams.

 

The hearts of the day are pulsing battlegrounds.

 

The anus of the day is a holy exit wound.

 

The offspring of the day are airborne futures.

 

 

 

Clean dreams

 

It’s bra-free Sunday,

and time to avoid

vacuuming the dead worms in the carpet.

 

Just keep your fingers out of the corners,

ignore the spiders in the sink,

recall the socioeconomic implications of maids

and rejoice in your definition of clean.

 

Best not to dwell

on the water around the window frames

and the brown color that the pipes give it;

dry up the cat puke casually

and celebrate your youth.

 

 

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