below in the ditch

climb onto my back

skull-leaved on the slope

uncoupling ornament

turning as a face might turn

coagulant feast from the fleece-pond

a bright boutonnière, moistened

lips, chest

blazonic

billowing on a limb

abortive husk floating the river

abraded—still warm

harvesters—black

between the maggot and the fly

august tide, a terminal seed

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Brandon Shimoda was born in California. He has chronicled his subsequent movement in recent and forthcoming installments of jubilat, A Public Space, Colorado Review, Practice and elsewhere, as well as in book projects forthcoming from Corollary, Flim Forum and Tarpaulin Sky Press(es). He currently lives in Montana.

Other works on Sidebrow: White, Trackless Land