LAUGHING, THE RATTLE BONES

Sean Braune

Civil emergence as
mutant figures


shell the
séance

habits tread the
light-path


subjected to readerly
rudders I am trapped,


                                                Hermetic, a dull chase
loves the epitome


                        the plenty
of lilies; our enemies


with noisy riches
are love’s pull


            on rapid pulses urging
the dumbest


                                                            trifles to stick
to the sass relation.


                        Father, the spleen
yields dreams


                                                                                    organ
Our publicity is by all


            means an
egg prick.—


the amber, a ruckus
a corpus emptiness


rustic mysteries
wander freely


laugh, the
finely tuned


patter of
fluke


skeletons



Sean Braune’s first book of philosophy, Language Parasites: Of Phorontology, appeared in 2017 from Punctum Books. His poetry has appeared in ditch, The Puritan, Rampike, Poetry is Dead, and elsewhere. He has two poetry chapbooks out with above/ground press—the vitamins of an alphabet (2016) and The Cosmos (2018)—and a third forthcoming called Face Portraits and Author Cops. A chapbook of his creative writing has appeared from AngelHousePress called Story of Lilith (2017).