SUGARY SURGERIES

I followed the heart attack
down the grazing horse’s neck

through topsoil and nematodes
through worm holes and roots

through underground rivers
through schools of blind fish

and up like silent lightning
into the man’s useful groin

it continued on its path
along a hawk’s thermal sleep

until it found its way down
a weak breeze near a tin thorn

it could bore a hole into and wait
there as long as it saw fit
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

after passing a field of grazing horses on my way to deliver a package to a friend while listening to the end of Gavin Bryars Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet and thinking about Hilma af Klint

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from ANOTHER NINE–published by Press Brake

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By Dara Barrois/Dixon 👍