[Realpoetik] AMBER DIPIETRA

[RealPoetik Magazine]

after 1




a.m.



remove contact

cataract

night glasses



mon-oculate at

K’s mouth,



just a

black hole

in his face.



Dream I ate his brain,



diffused our fight

by morning,



4,686,868

bytes in

58

seconds.



Our brain,

the cat puts a parasite in



so we love

him more, suffer



litter with some

gastric

juices

on the rug.



Shadow, the oldest

of 4

K brought

to apartment

and a corpse

already

under the

floorboard.



Electric composter

doesn’t belong in tiny

subdivided

old Victorian.



I like Saturdays,

benzodiazepine

vacuuming

over and over scarred wood.



Will the machine eat its own cord?



heart heart

burrow in
become zero



*Amber DiPietra* is a poet and disability culture worker in San Francisco.
Her interests include tracking the orthopedic body in real time, personal
fossil records, ¡accion mutante! politics, and warm waters. Poems and prose
pieces by Amber have appeared or are forthcoming in *Make, A Chicago
Literary Magazine, Mirage Period[ica]*, *Tarpaulin Sky, Mrs. Maybe* and *
TRY!*. Visit her blog at www.adipietra.blogspot.com.

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