candyhearts

deuteronomy 34 reading over notes for my lectures, daniel feigns that he knows nevuchadnezzar. in the convent, his room looks out over the veranda; light hits it late in the ...

daniel he’s viriscene, he’s close to me, ill lit. city to city, nanking, first kiss to the other night. i'm colored in his colors, in the oils, the reliefs, the ...

sun he had gravity. he was so riotous, captivating. there was real levity there, enviable lightness. in voice notes he recites grocery lists: ripe cucumber, leeks, bone broth, tofu. in ...

forgetting i remember resenting things, then loving them. i remember the tv he liked, the lessons he taught me, his lyrics or verse, how he told me things over coffee ...

5/5. prognosis wheat and tares, lemon, myrrh, gold in the temple, the things the child of nazareth touches linger through the verses. He’s looking for new textures, new rhetoric of ...

daniel (no verse) i'm vigiling him, the friday nights, the tofu fudge, limning, the romantic. he flits into my life through the fifth floor. the verse is never not this, ...

daniel 1:4 raising prophets has a feeling, like a pull on the nape of your neck. in or near the year that samaria falls, there is the pull of him, ...

daniel 10:6 the line of his nose, / necklace thickly on my cheek. / my feet on his feet. that's the verse. the lover from the negev valley in flesh ...

exegesis the first thing you forget, in grief, is how far horev is from egypt. lovelorn in the fell of leviticus, there’s a heifer in a valley, no fault nor ...

cyclical i’m hit in moonlight / like a gong, like the midnight / eyes of nazareth. that’s the verse. once in one thousand years, God lifts men from the nile, ...

4/5. nephesh there’s this man, long hair, lifted right from the valley of nevo. the rite calls for ripe flesh of lemon, of cucumber, of leek; oil on chest, tonic ...

Easter i'll not go from the crypt; on this Easter morning, i'm remaining. i left Him here, nazareth's child. oil, fig leaves, cinnamon, on His flesh, His neck, His thighs. ...

3/5. crucifixion ēlî ’ēlî lāmāh ‘ăzavtānî. the child of nazareth recites verses He knows, verses His mother recited, too, once. the closure of things in the opening of the cut ...

Moses kills a man, buries him haphazardly in the dirt. then, when God meets Moses for the first time, he has Moses take off his shoes. burrow yourself into what ...

2/5. sinai God, more than anything, is steadfast, and i am dutiful. He is the language i attach to Him, the language my grandma attached to Him. and He is ...