blue plastic, lead weights, plastic shavings, plastic scuff marks
circular impressions, or carpet indentations
hold hands in that picture
the body isn’t hidden
it’s right here, see
the smell of their searching leather gloves
the seat backs, floorboards, skin cells on the backseat middle belt?
tight men black like sausages with yellow straws
comb Illinois canals
looking for her body in boats of six
what strange little colonies we have in this drift-dream (no sand, no pine)
tape echoes to daddy on repeat, opening orchestral prime-time news horns,
just news, daddy, don’t cry
her voice bottomed out in December
too fuzzy for the tiny speakers
to hold in their black pulse
the opening shots are closing around, click
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