Two Poems
Alek Lindus

threading lies in the dark

Shedding skin
more skin,

exhausting a book

the weavers,
those with inflammation
or disease
of the breast, sent

to

my father, patron of


Edessa
Cairo
architects
construction workers
aside:sometimes a prisoner
even pyrotechnicians.

dead leaves,
a dirty dig

truth never whispers

I sank my teeth
into the flaking stucco,
salt crumbled
undressed house.

***

tropics

Let out of his cages
by half a small white pill
he takes to swatting flies at night


3 coils on a rope
time in a cabin
cajoling,
damp linen sky

the course you charted

perforated black.
saving what recurs
what you were
child's balloon
nebula.