Because pin may be pen;

i.e., I ask for one, you bring the other.

Yeah, my lazy mouth again, far for fur.

I right myself yet you make me hem.


And because loose & lose,

the bigger looser always losing.

And because caught & cot,

though lovers' cot & lovers caught.


And because shudders & shutters:

wood cinching houses, saving views,

& switches within cameras: glimpses, flights

& flashes up your arms, goose bumps.


Pairing Ds or Ts doesn't matter

though I prefer your wrist, when

unexpected, how I make you twitch

& open & close & jump, a light remembered

or remembering, the body's exposure.


DIALECT


(haiku koi intermission, a NW reflection on the California accent)

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