Andrew K. Peterson

You Appear Tentaculoracular

i see you thru the window of your motions
calm down maya i’m like fuck you
jellyfish juice in my knee stings
and suddenly i’m with you
again for ever and
ever as an ocean
is quiet is quiet
as all the ways
you come to
me only as
i’m fever
wild
passion
i say i am but
you wouldn’t say
would spontaneously
combusust unless you
appear tentaculoracular
would you piss on my wound
if i ask without remorse to dull
the poison and pain of the stung
pumps into my heart i’ll remember
this the clappers and steel drums one day
i’ll remember you suddenly down broadway
when life’s one long hourglass and lightning splits

t h e m i d d l e
s i f t i n g o u t
m e a s u r e s
o f m y p a t i e n ce
s p i l l i n g
o u t o f p a t i e n c e

“imagine the magnificence wash invisibly away”

a n c i e n t r e a l m
o f w a v e r h y m e s
i n t i m e ’ s n o m ea s u r e

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