MARTY CAIN
from SEXYRUBIES666
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Reflect my lungs to a world more metal
Poetry was time theft, feelings settle & sediment
I am in love / with your body On a bio-
Luminescent lawning cloud galloping
Stroke my wrist I suck the ruby stuck
In your anterior clavicle to protrude
Gentle, hapless, trick of blood or purple
Speck to hang my neck beyond the celestial bed
I HOLD YOUR HAND AND LOVE YOUR HEAD
Ocular muscles relax the chickenwire prick of flesh
The aquarian protrusion I swallow deer semen
We live in the cave behind Lucifer Falls
Our skin refracted through shivering flowers
And I am now the horniest person living
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from SEXYRUBIES666
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I was the horniest person living
I was quivering within a denim vest
Of dream-like sweating or cosmic dram I brag
Palmfuls of screws, guttural moss
An algorithmic rising of the sun, orphic bag
That rumbles & sucks itself, that’s love, that’s an
Entirely glass deer erected in the yard
MY THROAT SHREDDED OPEN
Matted white with no explanation shattered
Nothing in it, maggots anywhere
My daughter grips my hand
My daughter grips carcinogenic piles of dirt
And my spouse drags her finger
Down my sternum rendered under
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from SEXYRUBIES666
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Down my sternum rendered under
Sexting at work is a human right, water
Shelter, pleasure, pine, safety, needles
Locusts flailing, hemp rope
Mushroom tortoiseshell glowing cat I NEED GASOLINE
Lean beef, money for childcare
Recreate, kick, play, PTO, stopwatch impaled
Body impaled LCD liquid, jump mercury milkwater
Shelter, water, heat, water, compost
Floor gleaming, digital penetration
Alight on my pale glass autumnal tree-
Fingers breach scrape vaginal
Prostate of leaves buried in dirt
What’s left after work and after school
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Marty Cain is the author of three collections of poetry and hybrid writing—most recently, The Prelude (Action Books, 2023). Individual poems appear in Best American Experimental Writing, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Poetry Daily, Mercury Firs, and elsewhere. He lives in Ithaca, NY, where he co-edits Garden-Door Press and plays in the punk band Joyous Shrub.
Bluesky: @martycain.bsky.social