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Faith Shields
University of British Columbia

lily floats on tall ships tangled curls meshed to slowness racked with bracken
stolen from the main fringed blonde prickly pears fairies battles smooth
orange acetate fleshthread jellied life white solemn screed.

purple spat red-pocked honeybuzz and pearly baited gate giftcog seabest
ribboned with fat slackening blue in the farmyard repeat after me:

and the heavens opened and billjoen’marlowe stood before their
taker as theyknewtheywould and the book of rife was opened
and they were rife with wordafterword after mundane innocuous
inoffensive egalitarian word and it was not really so

as any tomdickanmary can attest pillowed telemachus fettered and torn bloomin’ jesus bottoms porn the empty shelled vessel the sea weeded weeping

60 ways to heave your mother plastic wrap and fortitude deckled knurled
and severed throat still pumping sweetly re:dickyouloss rebrilliant peaks
resounding           even so come billy.