14 haiku

1. Your limbs buried in northern muscle carry their own heartbeat 2. Mississippi... alert with conjugated pain 3. young Chicago stutterer whistling more than flesh 4. your pores wild stars embracing southern eyes 5. footprints blooming in the night remember your blood 6. in this southern classroom summer settles into winter 7. i hear your pulse swallowing neglected light 8. your limbs fly off the ground little birds... 9. we taste the blood ritual of southern hands 10. blue midnite breaths sailing on smiling tongues 11. say no words time is collapsing in the woods 12. a mother's eyes remembering a cradle pray out loud 13. walking in Mississippi i hold the stars between my teeth 14. your death a blues, i could not drink away.