Fred Schmalz
Demolishing the Burned House
- today’s word dust
- super-ceiling sub-floor
- live in us
- independent our invitation
- retell upbringings
- leaving the deaths in
- an arrangement where
- everyone gets younger
- news given grace
- broken even
- as the love of my life
- found in grammar unintended
- meant to say meet me
- hear mean echo fell
- bereft in faint light
- blue television on
- with no one there
- no absolute silence
- body machine whirring
- teeth struck together
- musically crystalline
- water water
- door jarred axe
- this was never my era
- in the first place