HELENE OR / DONT X BABY (EXCERPT)

3.

I see you up the hill
I see you in the car x
I see the forest breaking

I see you through
the door, bear wallow
the Tempest tossing the x
windshear the wind,
cutting x
dada sees a Kite
 
 
 
4.

Though dada shirt whipping
the blue ridge
dancing your blue
eyes Dancing
dadas aware
of not but

The Tom Forrd sun on snow the, terre
of Hermes the, x black orchid, the comedy
of Fragrance in the, fragrant, x

Limb, battering through
the house door the x door
pinned and
scattershot Daylight and, x
water on the alphabets, and x
the Elephants and, x
the book case and,
the tables, and x
the Wind on the names my x love
the

Wind that encounters,
you x must
change direction

The Wind made landfall
and was x land,
fall x the Autumn wild
was, the line
running

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from Helene or / Dont x Baby–published by Community Mausoleum

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Brendan Sherry is a poet based in Duluth, MN. His chapbook, Helene or / Dont x baby is available at Community Mausoleum. He is currently completing a full-length manuscript which explores climate displacement, leave-taking, and communal grief. Recent work can be found at brendansherry.com.