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From: Vol.05 N.02 – Make It So

golem

by Rory Green

sing a reverse burial

the mangrove cryptid

swallows bike frames

 

its exoskeletal graft

under muddied skins

some old body’s jingle

 

rings to nervousness

as sludge flesh tickles

a kayak’s hull agape

 

eyes the scout hall

in a theory of leaving

piers tremble and tip

 

reading out crab tracks

the membrane of marsh

accretes a wet language

 

stirs up dried limbs

water arcs through

metals and sediment

 

of a root saline sweat

stilted and panting the

golem strides inward

 

egests the stark past

a cellular sovereignty

mapped in tide pulse

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