7.

We can only live beyond our amphibious desires if we eat our fingers very carefully. 
I am paying close attention to your notion of humanity during a long conversation. 
This party I had was very conclusive. Decisions can be made rapidly about love. 
When we looked out the window we saw rabbits kissing in the grass.  
The sunset was progressing quietly over the empty parking lot. 
The year of the dragon is the same year you complained about your bad knee. 
Secret emotions are better left untreated by other secret emotions. 


12.

The doctors help us grieve our losses tenderly. 
In the end, a plausible novel is written greyly in shorthand.
Its palpable moments are really sporadic and wildly interesting. 
We can't recognize the language of spiders 
to be a greater truth than the shape of the oldest ceiling. 
When the war is ending and it is safe to be a pliable answer,
will you preserve your relatives in the resistant icebox,
eat your new children raw, climb your fallen tree with diplomacy?
Specific science is a game of unwed flowers. 
Specific knowledge is a religion unto itself
and buried deeply in a pile of oddly numbered teeth.