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Radio Tooth
Paul Jenkins
Winner of The Four Way Books |
RADIO TOOTH You have to stop searching Until you find it The borrowed woodcut buried all that year A black Madonna in a peasant skirt In the entire house nowhere Its owner begging its return Until one night flying low above the door A little trickier through the doorframes When I woke there she was in the very drawer Or like the crystal set built in youth Wrapping a toilet-paper tube with copper wire The crystal gleaming like a silver molar The night sky salted with stars When I could hardly stand the hissing in my ears The static weakened to a thread of music Look with all your eyes Listen with your bad tooth aching Something’s out there |
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