After "Stainless Sunset with Interesting Water Loop" by Michelle Noteboom,

While You Were Out Another Man/ Woman Came to Replace You
by Amanda Deutch


This is not unusual
write you
a virus

in the morning
move
buildings

wake
clouds
right

knee burns
broiling green scab
infected

years of
infection
desired

embraced
photograph
myth of windows

another face
speaks
of cores

walls
mask days
witness matter

stains
break open
fundamentally

reveal
diseases
flash flash

explode
detonate
cleanse

and thicken
flowers quite
open

more than high
thievery
yes

little thief lady
steal gushing
species

bonelets (human)
coming through
cities

remark
handle or deal
awkwardly

odorous dignity
by
melting

one
more than
three

inflammation
body on
ground

skin shed
relatives of
permanance

imagine
laid with
ceremony
to stiffen

or
float
her