Alm 12

by Seth McKelvey

groanings in a lower octave
spiral up incense-
like, incense-
d at the d
-oubled up

(a bifurcated exaggeration of the
cartoon abstraction,
half and harp)

heart and heart

both won’t beat. they’ll
choke each other with their
contradictory squeezing, is-
chemic hypoxiation. th-

is scheme cascades

into two flapping lobes, masses of necros-
is to be cut off,
glossa-
      cut off mid-
sentence, al-
l al-
ong, burned away like
dross
earth into gold and
gold into earth into gold al-
chemic
-al. what scabs will emerge ung-
lossed, what sapling will sprout from the
stump?

this strutting li ps, cut off
                     m
at the pass
/fail, and th-
is stu t t ering seeks
rest, in a sense, doubled over