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[madtuck]

Jericho Brown at @bgwritersstudio summer residency #poetryfire #readmorepoetry (at Richmond Area Arts Council) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz3Zk8dldSz/?igshid=nk53nyvsqnru

[rendering]

Before the Window Bird

Too much, it invited

a wind-up toy inside my chest, my neck felt twisted on wrong, somehow

Sleepless, I read an article it said that the dysfunction is rarely physical, psychological

is the hidden issue and could I edit the magazine there– oh dear

I ate with no hunger, decided I would sleep far from noon; declared I could not write,

and threw a funeral for this poem, lacking a pulse;

asking the universe

impossible things