anniversary by Paul Koniecki

anniversary from the latin meaning blue gold fish in a time of sinkholes piloting a bathysphere at the bottom of a trench beside a yellow moon washed fallow lea with delmore schwartz and a kaleidoscope fine remembrance ocular history aspect of light visual perception i am inverted underwater university each day i fall in stasis like cistern or a well vertiginous tunnel my hands are badgers clawing badgers at an opening smelling vaguely of greek fire and you marker in time indigenous wet hare ghost lover fast runner celebration of firsts submersible rabbit amphibious brain pilot anno domini discarnate offspring incarnate scribe my chest is an echo my chest is an acre of land time remembers pulling badger hearts and blue gold fish to the bottom of a bottomless word anniversary

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