sentenced
baby squirrels feed on intestines
rabbits
hidden smiles of the patient
State executioners
slide of emotional debt
played in front of desperte oaks
cheese grater resonance
for the young
know-it-alls hustling favors
from their fathers’ friends
busking money clip boners
at temple shrines
and the size of brain became
the comfortable narrative
and the songs
of the priests echo on receding
memory
of the dead
the harmony of animal senses
hunger