Open-throated boys float together,
clots in a valley. Black-green
herons stab frogs asleep in the river.
It is morning: birds speak, hairy flowers
unclench their faces. Small eyes see
open-throated boys float together,
botfly larvae under their skin, and pale soldier
fly larvae in soft, segmented masses eating.
Herons stab frogs asleep in the river
slime. Muddy-gilled carp
rise, mouth fingertips, toes, penises.
Open-throated boys float together
as one cell in a long vein below coca hills. Deliver
us from evil.
Herons stab frogs asleep in the river.
Hooded men enter a village off the water
with machetes, drench everything in gasoline.
Open-throated boys float together.
Herons stab frogs asleep in the river.
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