1. to be porous

2. malfunctioning singer M2100

3. colloquial "gotcha"


4. ascending


5. a hermit crab

6. parched



7. awakening

8. tar

9. to molt

10. the necropastoral

A. we take up the seam ripper and slice a gash across our pelvis

B. walk six flights up as the blood pools by our hips

C. they follow our trail lapping our sick sucking it from their fingers  their esophagus stings

D. like the salt of the sea a sixteen-foot wave the kind that gets shoved down your throat as you get taken into the undertow

E. a hermit crab waves form the shore and

F. as they cry and scream hands bloodied with our innards our flui our disgusting oozing sick now  cracked dry onto their faces under their nails pulling their sunken  cheeks so

G. they collapse inwards into dust

H. we laugh and laugh

I. their ash falling blanketing

J. the pools persist staining  synthetic bleach