The secret fetus curls inside. It is not
understood why the snail
embryo twists back

a meteorite is somehow connected to salvation
from the destroying father: the celestial child
emerging hot out of the earth.

If a man steals his neighbor’s shoes, he must
guard them day and night. He must not sleep.
He must try and eat them.

All night rooting, Hamlet squeezed loose,
a secret pinkness under the wall,
your pet piglet