JAI BRITTON

Lemon Tree
he set the lemon tree on fire
and left for outer space humming
an Elton John tune.

the Lincoln Continental got him to the moon.

Seeing Spots
spiders for corners
of eyes. gossamer ghosts
of things I might have seen.

dragonflies while driving,
gnats on the telephone, aphids aphids in my hair,
figments of beetles burst bubbles in the bath.
there are mothmen everywhere.

bugs that swim beneath my skin
and surface on my eyes
or in my ears spinning

their compulsive record
on their pointed proboscis
awaiting the eventual feast hosted
by this chosen cadaver.

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