TO BILL
priests & happy people
in their epic super-8
seesaw wood up & down
the whole arienette
gonna collapse
silver, in cool sleep
dream the heart had a
stem cell
TO ELSA
word, cranial, bud antennae
on the phone your
voice
crashes open the cylinder
all existant layers
plowed through—
we have entered a time
of consequences
all full of hair-blood
i can only say my heart breathes
pumps verdure light
TO JOAN MARIE
is death which jerks us out of tenacious
minute organisms
every manifestation of our own
Nakedness
a state of continuity through
business
TO JO
beautiful blood, beautiful brain
god knows i work hard to escape
bloody snob, ezra
meant “jewels”—
alas, poor old
masters
let me indulge the
american letter:
“i of course like your old man, and
i have drunk his Goldwasser”
Sara Larsen is a writer who lives in Berkeley. She co-edits TRY! magazine, a bi-monthly literary/arts zine, with david brazil, and is founder of earthworm press & projects. her chapbooks include to paradise a dashboard (autonomous earth press), doubly circulatory (artifact press), 2000 decembers (ampersand press), 23 Chromosomes for David Wojnarowitz (earthworm press & projects), and most recently, NOVUS (earthworm press & projects).