"Drought drawn retractions"
Brandon Shimoda

Drought drawn retractions

 

emulse in the craquelure grass

 

      Everything shakes

 

 

 

A draught of stolen perfume

leaps out

of a wooden bowl

 

hovers in the fine

bone air

a single glinting

 

marrow cell

finger prints on the obtuse

neck glow

 

in the side-drawn light

wood spins on

its hollows

 

 

down in the dirt

 

 

 

a lip

 

 

  bouquet

 

 

   a (stirring) salt