enjoy this Chris Butler writing
in the Scars Publications free 2011 PDF file chapbook: Antimatter
(click on the front cover image or the
title text to download the free PDF file)
Grind
Chris Butler
Grinding my teeth
and thinking of you,
like I’m chewing sinew
or bleeding meat,
you’re still stuck in
my sandpaper enamel,
breaking the brittle
minerals while crawling
over and around the
rows of rolling molars
or lodged between the
cracked gaps, ripping
at my rotting roots,
where mint-flavored
floss splits the
reddened gums.
Creaking mandible jaw
until my face aches,
chisels this mouth
into crowned porcelain
dentures, straightened fake,
to forget one flaw.
