Truck

ELIZABETH HILDRETH


HAMMERING THE SCREW


Until the head
Breaks off?
Not surprisingly
not confabulous
and in fact wading
chest-deep into virus
except suicidally more
serpentine and watery.
What have we learned
about full circle?
And what do we ever?
Don't spit if foggy.
Don't fire if foresty.
Maybe the spirit isn't
here to teach you anything.
Maybe the spirit isn't here.
I don't know. It's sweet.
Even metal in your mouth
is sweet. Even when I don't
mean that it's sweet.




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