John Mulrooney
2 Poems
Lines remembered from a lost notebook 1

Neptune on the subway
blesses with his sceptre

Girls with slash marks on their arms
            A fiery light from a moving sky
still shines on the intractable state.



Lines remembered from a lost notebook 3

round vowels of longing from the faucet
splash of water and the night’s dossier
slides off my fingers and face,
slick scummy story
            invisible and always unfinished

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