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rest stop Dan Sicoli it rains dark rain and the second hand sweeps like the thumping windshield wiper pushing aside a relentless past whispered lightning flashes along with road signs “vacancy” and “open 24 hours” neon colors bleed in beads between hot white flickers power lines are limp dandelions and the second hand having ceased its rotation allows morning to awaken alone rhodium Dan Sicoli like a baby highway silverfish speed of electricity like confused moths darting madly about a light bulb stop i smear grease of silver death on my fingertip i heard her say these words Dan Sicoli she said my eyes were more than just puppies her ego, more than sky she said her auburn hair was more than just logic and i had reasons like iron it’s her voice that has attached me digging in the warmth of her vowels she’ll call a dream a lie and me a ghost haunting the mundane she said my eyes were black olives and her blood, more than a blanket for the soul she claimed we could all devour the beating of the moment if only to sustain the selfishness of survival First published in Butcher’s Block ornamental Dan Sicoli my lover embeds jewelry with song notes sound from her bracelets and stones timbre of her earrings resonates our moment dripping gold onto her fingers my lover tumbles down in a shower of scales her necklace an orchestra of jade and silver swinging in afterthought as a clef spears a beating heart end piece Dan Sicoli with unyielding precision my lover quizzed for secrets to reveal myself is your tongue often more naked than testicle? does the moon ingest your innocence? will i be your final thought as you lay dying? 10,000 messages alit in a black sky and i could not say she left me with a ticket for the mystery train and headed south birthday Dan Sicoli sucking its last breath and ash turns to sky perhaps the best seedless in seven years sitting on the roof we blow it out to george washington clouds as fireworks burst on the fourth of july

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