sequences from
Death and
by Yarrow Woods
wish one weren't two two to mothmoan threee three asking hyper-thread- bare s[w]ore notch belt -loop what i know of strangulation is how many times my dad said that's how he would go white [f]lies suck out the sap like u [shouldn't] snake venom from Death’s tomato plants soap solution won't wash them away we harvest them green well i don't think hanging from the ceiling would work a fannannannn&a light No Weighghghtt! N O W E Y! to be sure to be safe louder than drinking To Death: yrself^ no Grave could be called Early where soy & corn play hide n seek every year were basements were sheds where the Kansas Foster Care system “lost track” of 74 kids where hills & hillocks & cornflowers & chamomile where flat where All’s Well That Ends well & the well Is poison i left & met Death on a cold springy night CAUSE BUILDING FIT THE AXIS WILDER ONTO YOU TITHING ILL UNDERRAPT BLISTERIA OF WHITHER WALKING UNTIL SCICKLES UNTIL CIRCLE OUR EVERREADY ARRYTHMIA LANCELET KILLTER IF THIS ACT HOLDS HOPE THEN WELLMIGHTASWELL FIGURE TO TRANSVERSEINSURMOUNT SNAKES KISSING TELLTALE NNNNN S I N G L E T S I N G E R SEWING MACHINE TURNED DESK INTERNAL FLINT-SMOKE OAK TRUST TURNING LATHING ASH DOORS THATS LoL SO LUCKY WE EXIST solar ext. f4 drink into did fill yr mouth THEnd swallow honey i knew it all along after all who knows the real face of choosing to be alive because the alternative is just slightly more terrifying last chance we lock the bikes to each other & a cement block Good Fucking Luck Moving over in w/at w/to? Lake? re : ed w/t/f o n n n n n repainting the barn yellow the fingers yellow the whole sludgedead lushyet world |
yarrow yes woods is a maid and copywriter in Chicago. Her work can be found at Dream Pop, BOAAT, DREGINALD, The Wanderer, decomP, Palimpsest, The New Territory, and DIAGRAM.