So to SpeakTerrance Hayes The three sections of Terrance Hayes' seventh collection explore how we see ourselves and our world, mapping the strange and lyrical grammar of thinking and feeling. In "Watch Your Mouth," a tree frog sings to overcome its fear of birds; in "Watch Your Step: The Kafka Virus," a talking cat tells jokes in the Jim Crow South; in "Watch Your Head," green beans bling in the mouth of Lil Wayne, and Bob Ross paints your portrait. On the one

It is a day of movements and improvisations

and solitude

not a bardlike but a birdlike song […] something like a goldfinch tremolo

this fresh

In the mid-1970s

Knotsgekke gedichten

nestelen zich diep in de genetische code van het paniekerige lichaam

or parodies thereof: Sappho

In Interior Landscape

In lijfelijke

An April night in London

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