they shoot behemoths don’t they?
(venezuelan poodle moth)
the groundhogs chased youngest up the
back stairs snarling their progeny people
the house now the house that housed the:
motherfather
threebros onesister
tendogs twentyfourpups
onerabbit onesquirrel fish
oneturtle eaten by poodle
backsplit ravinehouse sunsets in living room reds
boy who killed his mother returns prodigal-jerry in a
bathrobe now his orange javelin spewing dust of
the dead:
father
brother
grandfather/grandmother
all dogs
so far
the still alive inhabit new houses while the earlier house
decomposes in their basements in their dreams and
new moths eat the new clothes and the family pretends
their moth problem has been solved
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Summer 2019
..here once someone had lived; there had been a house..
(Virginia Woolf To The Lighthouse 1927)
(transmutation of blacksonovitch the family poodle
now a poodle moth in heaven)
