"Over and Over As I Wake" by Daniel Owen

I love you so much I         ruin all flamingoesshorn, shorn    mist rising green springleaf buds other colors I bouquet   for you         if I cansell all my property and mist         yousmelling of cilantro and animalrising from ancestor marshthat time on the train throughthe provincial capital     the world'slargest cedar forest         bundledin the hourglass         nowhold close the morningbreath    empty nest    a recurringdream    spilled pink     I repeatthe phrase over and over Ilove you so much I ruin         all flamingoes    yesthe rising   morning radio talks shit         clouds where wings goa sentiment understood like a paintbrushgoing deeper and deeper into your body         tickling that fragmentbroken off the wall   that         morning absenceoutlined by feathers