2, "The Dream."
A single silver eye.
Left hands.
Teeth tied to the rafters.
Marble molars fluttering from the rafters.
A bronze breast.
A pockmarked stomach.
13 arms reaching down from heaven.
Tangled clay intestines.
Copper tongues.
90 blood stained ivory tongues.
So many muddied penises.
20 wood whittled fingernails.
Swollen tongues.
Scalps thin as paper plates.
Real bones.
Wax wombs sealed and wickless.
Limestone heads, whole heads.
A nose nailed on to a window.
Colorless top lips.
Some terracotta bladders.
Oil painted scabs on parchment skin.
75 mingled ears, an pierced ear, an infant's ear,
an infant's ear.
1,000 sand sculpted eyes, unblinking.
A wax cast thumb and forefinger, almost touching.
Chiseled off wrists.
1,000 belly button copper coins.
Marble shoulders, silver jars, Kleenex stashed in human hair.
Menstrual blood on cheap cloth.
Menstrual paintings of the unborn, the just born, the
never born.
10 silver wombs stuffed with stalks of braided hair,
with a firstborns fresh hair.
A single womb sculpted from one beggar's loaf of bread.
Its chamber empty, near collapsed with mold,
but held bound by the weighted hair,
by the matted hair of a waiting mother.