(for Tania, Goldie, Jack, Georgia, and Grey) – may you rest
Sedative Ketamine Rainbow
My dogs, my loves, my deers
These were your last memories, and I could only think to pick up shards of glass as you laid in urine.
Hardly the time.
I know how to clean like Glenn Gould plays the piano or how Howard Hughes knows germs.
I wish I had kept the stains, kept the beds. I wish I had made daisies of your golden deaths.
(revised from the chapbook Ghostpins, 2019)
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