from the womb not the anus WHITE asbestos snowfall on 911
(written after eating only white foods for a day
while under the influence of “108” written
on my forehead with fresh semen),
it's a dog
my heart
my war hair
gets the dead
tangled express message
sent to meet
the approaching
fist
wince
but
do not
burn
away
from more
than one
thing and
more than
one day
Apathy
break from
room where
electricity
hums for
years
retrieve
mind from
socket and
tingly
crotch that
created this
world
does having the
ear of
angels
impress?
but
I would
rather speak
to you
Dear Admiral White Pants
thanks for
the field
guide to
extinct
animals
you make me the
belly who
birds push
through at last
the rich can
hire a dominatrix
my mother could
only afford to
marry badly
everything you
know and
do not
know can
be yanked
apart no matter
who you
can
afford
post
traumatic
stress the
grass
bleeding
chlorophyll
do you
like your
fluids to
travel together?
tell me please
about
the calm you
seek when
war is
over
my uncle sneered to
say what a horrible
soldier you
would make!
nicest
thing
anyone's ever
said
of me
a dove
lands but
I say nothing
no spell
broken
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CAConrad’s childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia the first chance he got where he lives and writes today with the PhillySound poets. The poem included in Sink Review is part of a book forthcoming from Jack Kimball’s FAUX Press in late 2007. Soft Skull Press published Deviant Propulsion in 2006. The Book of Frank is forthcoming in 2008 from CHAX Press. A selection of The Book of Frank was recently translated into German by Berlin poet Holger, and a bilingual chapbook is now available from Carrie Hunter’s YPOLITA Press.