Sunday, October 14, 2007

DAHLIAS UNDER FIRE response to Jen Dick's INTER-INERROGATIONS after my INVESTIGATION

DAHLIAS UNDER FIRE
By Amanda Deutch


How did you know dahlias would appear so often?
always in the dirt
bending televisions broken murmurs
stumble over blind bodies lying on concrete, pedestals, cowboys
in questionable pockets
maps of night masked in
dubious outstretched arms
form shadows misleading
rivers

pull out
a gasp

dubious outstretched arms full of dust bunnies
almost religious in their purity
soaked interrogation

mother spilling blood, spitting axes
uprooting
nothing
dahlias, magenta under fire
simmer on the vacant stove

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