Cruciverba #2 (Cruciverba #2′ was published in the fourth issue of underblong journal)

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listen: a girl’s head hangs
from a tree / & all night
her lips hinge their lightless
words upon its leaves /
think of her body / & a bird
inside it / bone perched
on thinner bone / songs
snowed across her veins /
begging to lean along the sky /
break its beakless mouth /
to song