oh, renoir

a boy's room. a boy's tomb. white walls and wood trim. a marlboro marine. cigarettes and smoke and vacuum exhaust. religion. real gin. trips home from college for the holidays. post collected from months away. at bay. both at bay at the water and at bay at rest. a boy's room. a boy's tomb. a testament to rest (noun and infinitive and infinite). practical jokes and pornos. blue and white. the finnish flag. the ocean and the sky. yr eyes and yr sheets stained with semen. mountaintops. mounting tops. venetian fog lolling like memory. like a jumper in a thrift store. nordic sweaters big enough for two. you and i or her two breasts. romulus and remus suckling the wolf mother. each other. no other.