from monumental
Sarah Trott

the inside of things is the outside, like the inside

of a whale is the bone and the bone

becomes the outside of the marrow of the core or

in the case of birds, of the hollow and here, the hollow

is the outside of empty and empty

is the inside and the outside of all things

��������� everything is mostly the same and space

��������� is the part in between but the same

��������� as everything still and round

��������� and here is the look of being stricken

��������� and here is how it surrounds

��������� implements worry across

��������� the news and local sections

��������� this air of stricken

��������� clouds and everywhere

��������� we are everything the cloud

��������� is much the same as a fingernail

��������� or cloth mouthguard

in the instance of collapse it all rushes in a cloud of dusty

making it colorful naturally that's the way color works

naturally to ward off to seem like poison the faces rip off quick

to lose one constitutes a problem a separate a problem concerning holding

and sometimes it ends in broken

things maybe furniture or glassware from a county fair

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��������� the worst you could ever know a fire or shaking knees
��������� it hasn't ended for months they're still cutting with saws
��������� outside breaking into the other side to save the pieces of lives

aggressive is how you do����������pushing around into pools and lakes

mammoth is a largeness of attempt a hunt for bodies tethered to porches
��������� for fear of floating

in the holdouts there is resistance a love�
of animals a please let me stay with all the bodies
and my favorite streets are cobbled and dark�������

��������� ��������� far from settled the language

��������� ��������� of the article was charred said rubbed

��������� ��������� off and it meant faces

��������� ��������� and the goggles it said melted to her

��������� ��������� cheeks and now it's repeated

��������� ��������� here with the same words

��������� ��������� but in a new order but meaning

��������� ��������� the same thing effecting

��������� ��������� nothing not making anything live

��������� ��������� again not the way it was before

��������� ��������� with fingers unfused and fathers

��������� ��������� and mothers at home to feed

��������� ��������� the way many do hand to mouth

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