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Seven Years of Famine, Seven Years of Feast

fevers, dreams
101, 102, 103 degrees
mercury spikes in the bulb
explodes         in the hand
or mouth

and St. Peter’s
feverish
at the potter’s wheel
while the wheel spins
in the potter’s mind

so I feel I have hard heads
hard words
knocked down in the pit
drugged in the pit
in the pit

while my brothers played
numbers over me

who am I?

*

who are they?
who they were
who do you think you are
turning the furnace back up
exploding the Chinese Brothers inside

exploding
little Shadrach Meshach Abednego
little Solomon, chopping the dog in half

of all this energy
did you dream
did you dream
did you dream
of the woman again?
was she taking something from you?

*

Dance with me, hard head
little kiln
little egg, sticky-egg
white egg, Faberge (egg)

so for the days we’ll have off
Lady Fatima’s fortune-bread
the dough before it’s baked
sticky with ingredients

egg white
vanilla white
sugar white
salt white
water white
flour white

incandescent
head you’re broken
take that