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As One with Foot in Mouth
- University of Iowa Press
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As flesh unfleshed, as fleshment of. As one with tomahawk in skull, no longer headlugged, as one used to think: I can see you when I die, I die a little faster. As stray air brushing bare boards. As light bending over a pair of shoes, as musty coat holding the sole remains of human shape. As flood, as as . . . profusion of darkness, red and yellow dahlias, a chest of drawers, all furniture confounded. All gathering together. As aimless gust, as indefatigable fingers. As washing machine pounding in a room above. All the room a heart and this corner of the world a corner of Appalachia. As lackadaisical flies, barefoot tikes, green and purple Popsicle-mouths open for more than a green wave of trees in a corner of a skull. As alien size this space. As snake-tongued branches tongue. As St. Francis tells the birds. as one with foot in mouth [ 49 ] ...