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Willowing

from Phosphorus Lost by Mocking Cricket

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Who would go willowing? Weeping and bent
For a darling, a day, an indulgence well spent?
Spangled and Boschean, longing to cling
To what’s gorgeous, distorted, wrong-wired, and fevering!


Ants on the peonies and under the steps,
And a snakebite to suck on. De-venom your Hesitance.
Angel, be doe-eyed and caked-in-mud Decadent.
Spit out the poison and sample the rest.


Fragrances cloying and wooded and green
Swizzled lazily, glass-locked, are not what they seem,
Like the mirror plays tricks
When my tattoos read foreign to me.


Let’s have more marginalia, less prayer in between.
Let subtext be subtle, don’t ask what it means.
Take this vellum and make it absurd or obscene,
So longs as spectacular, prismatic and glowing.


I’ve been wearing the cloak of the East.
And not only to hide in; I like how it feels.
I would rather be realer than velveteen any day,
If there’s a way to stay soft on the surface
And wooden beneath…


Then again, it’s a beast to go locating
Rabbits while pressed among leaves.
I’d rather be anywhere nearer to dearer,
If there was a way to stay solid
Without getting lost in between.


Ghosts in the willows gone casting the dice.
I might braid up my ghost in the ghost of whoever might
Bend the rusted edge of me and brush it to singing,
As lakes sing from underneath inches of ice.

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from Phosphorus Lost, released January 1, 2023

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Mocking Cricket is a one-man band by multimedia artist, Evvie/Evvin Marin (they/them). Gothic folk. A smoky voice & a questionable life decision.

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