TO BILL<br><br><br>priests & happy people<br><br> in their epic super-8<br><br>seesaw wood up & down<br><br>the whole arienette<br> gonna collapse<br><br>silver, in cool sleep<br><br> dream the heart had a<br>
<br> stem cell<br><br><br><br>TO ELSA<br><br><br>word, cranial, bud antennae<br><br>on the phone your<br>voice<br>crashes open the cylinder<br><br> all existant layers<br><br> plowed through—<br>
<br>we have entered a time<br>of consequences<br><br> all full of hair-blood<br><br><br>i can only say my heart breathes<br><br> pumps verdure light<br><br><br><br>TO JOAN MARIE<br><br><br>is death which jerks us out of tenacious<br>
<br> minute organisms<br><br>every manifestation of our own<br><br><br><br> Nakedness<br><br>a state of continuity through<br><br> business<br><br><br><br>TO JO<br><br><br>beautiful blood, beautiful brain<br>
<br>god knows i work hard to escape<br><br>bloody snob, ezra<br> meant “jewels”—<br><br>alas, poor old<br><br> masters<br><br>let me indulge the<br><br> american letter:<br><br><br>“i of course like your old man, and<br>
i have drunk his Goldwasser”<br><br><br><b>Sara Larsen</b> is a writer who lives in Berkeley. She co-edits TRY! magazine, a bi-monthly literary/arts zine, with david brazil, and is founder of earthworm press & projects. her chapbooks include <i>t</i><i>o paradise a dashboa</i>rd (autonomous earth press), <i>doubly</i> <i>circulatory </i>(artifact press), <i>2000 decembers</i> (ampersand press), <i>23 Chromosomes for David Wojnarowitz</i> (earthworm press & projects), and most recently, <i>NOVUS</i> (earthworm press & projects).<br>
<br>--<br>RealPoetik<br><a href="http://realpoetik.blogspot.com" target="_blank">realpoetik.blogspot.com</a><br>