even so even as

even so even as

Darcy Luetzow Staddon

do not be

terrified there is

still ice cream

even so even

as our throats are

scraped out a giant

pestilence a fingernail

scraping out the singing

in our throats no

one said a voice 

shredded is less use

ful for singing more 

so maybe more of a branch

twisted nest-like in the tall

burning tree so

before it melts quickly it’s 

chocolate and

I will still give

you a mouth

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Darcy Luetzow Staddon
Poet & Musician

Photography by Ludwig Favre