- Oh for sake (May 22 9:28 PM)
Oh for sake we crawlthrough the mud withaltars of elbows and facesstout in the rock candlesand supermen a prayerwith boiled jewels andcreatures sloppy toscavenge a new route astray man fugue a mucus-eyed walleyed gem
Spank spank | with jewels |
a style | and soap |
of crabs | a lab |
a better print | of condors |
of maps | the clean odor |
oh for sake | previously able |
we push | to stutter |
through | a quote |
the margins | oh for |
and prayers | flimsy trims |
a break for | we crawl |
boiled food | through |
a break | the mud |
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Samuel Ace is the author of three books of poetry: Normal Sex, Home in three days. Don’t wash., and Stealth, with Maureen Seaton (Chax Press). Most recently his work can be found in Fence, Aufgabe, Versal, Rhino, Volt, Mandorla, The Volta, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics.