a belly full of pigeon & thrush coos to the expand & contract of wood / bent to pick lint from the seams (of carpet): you find grovel / live with the swallow, put the egg back together / stippled with shrapnel: nails & rust imbedded in your knee caps; stuck in your teeth, your ribs; piercing your belly button / bones calcify in the refrigerator, toes stud themselves into thresh / stretch (like a piano, let me play) your ivory spine