CLOUD RAT

1. SUENO

Confidence inside a marble eye.
Scales wrap the rope around your legs to drag you out,
Under the watershed, end of the road work.
They balance on a plank, arms to keep from swaying.
Demons in the sky, rats under the soil.
Put the exhaust in the ground to smoke the reptile out.
Third Reich grave dancer will be lit on fire once and for all.
No hidden place for you to conduct ignorance.
A beautiful place doesn't exist in plain sight,
But seedlings tended by Ra will conquer.
I know what it's like to see a snake in greens,
But I don't know the pain of hiding,
To avoid getting bitten by any means.


2. PERDIAK

Swoon like a net swaying in the air,
Slip-sliding down a hole.
Knots in our hair, brush me harder.
Things I think I forget: top bunk spying down,
You're a pomegranate, you're sweet,
You race over fresh water.
Can I blot you out like ink on paper?
Will I always follow you around?
I catch the fly in my palm,
Cold starts to burn, dropping it down.
Can't learn, can't learn, I can't learn;
Clothes line suicide.


3. CLENCH

Michigan basement blues,
Maudy can't control her tone.
Sleep inside a tomb.
Baby monitor; Drekavac answers.
Touching husband directs the parade of degradation.
From beyond the edge,
Velcrow farmlight, hind legs high.
The parents. Those neglectful dogs, only in night.
We paint her nails so she can forget about the bed sores.
'65, '89, '90, '01.


4. BABY SLING BALLOON BORN

Paint drawing, skipping around,
Barrettes and rubber bands,
Protection at all costs.
A bumbling, two different fates,
Brown hair, blue eyes.
I hum Magyar to get to sleep.
Your caw of life is a nightmare.
You don't know what it means.
The simplicity of it all takes pure form,
Terrified to hold you when it only means
We're going to have to run.
What is he? What is she?
Rip the talking box out.
Sister wolf eats the throat of the jester,
Here to fucking perform.


5. BITING THE AIR

Spun like strings on a guitar,
Tighten my arms around you.
A distance I can see from the middle room,
You in the corner under the lamp,
Waiting, what you do best to suck the blood from time.
First drink of wine, pretend to nap,
A ghost in the ceiling.
Apply the makeup to be together.
Walks across the sand, Polish script passes out eyes.
Pain across an ocean, watching storms.
Frustrated forehead hits a teleprompter.
Sleigh bells tied to sticks to awaken a love and a charm.
A little light, a little light.


6. PIT

Glass is shattering across the world tonight.
Everyone, masks on. Tear gas rains from the sky.
In a paddle boat on an eerie plane, I catch my last fish.
The lunatic screams from under the water.
Just float gently over, cold broad shoulder.
A tad bit of water enters the lungs,
"Gunna getchu! Can't hear you!"
Before you sink a calm glossy eye,
We peer down at a purple vein face.
Screens capture the life that was almost saved,
But this is just a clip show now, no hard feelings.
Mind hugged by bats hanging in an abandond cave.
Your life is still here because its on a page.


7. AMBER FLUSH

We can make peace with it,
That is what sanctuary is.
Proof of concept, I need you not to scream.
Why are you here?
Baby pink walls, velvet sheen,
Spines and thorns are the trim around a sinking soul.
Husk boy, false eyelashes,
I don their skin for more than just warmth.
I know myself better than you could have ever thought.
I am the bouquet, drink from my hip.
I won't open boxes that I'm told not to.


MOLOCH

8. THE NINTH WAVE / BLOODY NORTH

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9. LEAD

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