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The riot-laugh of victor kings and trickster princes - Brandon O'Brien "Anansi Braids Your Stepson's Hair"

Failing History and being doomed to repeat it - Brandon O'Brien "Anansi Braids Your Stepson's Hair"

Just draws the route out of doubt - Brandon O'Brien "Anansi Braids Your Stepson's Hair"

As if the threshold was the infinitesimal - Brandon O'Brien "Cento for Lagahoos"

Take away from this haunted space - Brandon O'Brien "Cento for Lagahoos"

Loosen my language from my teeth - Brandon O'Brien "Cento for Lagahoos"

hungry for the fruit of cracked bones - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"

carve words in the dark - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"

rage does sharpen my back teeth - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"

still hold pause for the sun - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"

I could choose myself in all my shadow - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"

grow bile and peaks of anger - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"

And carve off each stain of the hurt - Brandon O'Brien "Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve's Beast"

Some truer me in knots of matte and glowing rage - Brandon O'Brien "Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve's Beast"

That makes the rose about me and gnashes at thorns - Brandon O'Brien "Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve's Belle"

Bury screams beneath the roots - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part I)"

And you don't like standing in its light - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"

Either chemistry or literature, a catalyst or a metaphor - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"

To be the calculus that no one else can perform - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"

Sharp stones beneath the wayward lemongrass - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"

You learn something strange when you garden for souls - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"

Take out the locked box of the warped evidence - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"

with horns that fly in the wind - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"

Jesus leaned on the cornerstone - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"

because it wanted a change of canvas - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"

they cast their fears in iron - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"

long before the buzzard comes - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"

will blow our ash into glassware - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"

A truth burgled, tarnished, but returned - Brandon O'Brien "Quiet and Fragile Try on the Same Romper"

The usual flames rising up from the cracks of everything we know - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"

The tiring task of casting lots on the cost of a human spirit - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"

All of the tinsel we imagined has gone rotten - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"

A seed. Surviving in this tragic soil - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"


Poet's bio at uncannymagazine.com.


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