elizabeth barbato

 
 

 

Lachrymose

 

if you would only cut your fingernails more often

if you only knew milk-soaked bread takes out a splinter


when you swam the coral stopped growing

while you walked the stars hitched vibrato


when I look at my teeth in the side of a knife

when you look at my teeth, your shadow


if this were a piano not a dashboard

if we were not twins, just lungs


claw dark red, thumbsucker

pearl my eyes, false father


when I said there’s the bathtub

I meant take the next left

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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