An excerpt from Sean Singer’s “Paraffin Fuel,” originally published in NER 29.2 (2008):

“Bring me a big bowl of avocado
seed soup while we nail the seed
to the roof and that’ll fix it.”

You’ve got to fix it, dab
the glue in my middle, as the rim
turns among its rust. Like paraffin

fuel, like orangeade imprinted
upon a prayer. Like buff mottling
feeding on an ant.

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