1.

One must attend to elemental longing
by creating further scarcity.

It’s a gaunt doctrine.

Ornaments must be burned.
Chalkboards too.
Candles in the shape of living creatures make the best effigies.
Therapeutic wax lion.

Old pale beeswax.
Grind your teeth in time to the fire alarm.
Break plates. Drink honeyed resin as it drips from the shelves.

This period of denial, emergency, caving in
makes the head brighter, powdery.

2.

The transition, you could say,
is akin to the transition from milk to solids.
The house made from limestone

consumes a good part of their lives.
They do not move from the limestone.
They grip soft metal cutlery,

pin bundles of herbs to the wall,
swallow toothpaste. They are minted, surfactant, porous.
After licking the walls and furniture,

slurry hardens in the stomach, is plastered to intestinal walls.
The body makes small sacrifices so they can continue to eat.
Flour tongue, spooned fingernails, rigid bones.

3.

Wake up in a richer house. You taste gold in your tapwater.

Baltic love, Baltic life. XXX. Amber blood.
There is ancient fire, richness in all that you do.

Batteries are audible. Fizzing marrow.

4.

Glinomer Bulgakov
Clay Blue Marble
Vatutin
Clay Light Blue Ukraine
Spica
Lontan
Svyatogorsky chalk
Clay White Tenderness
Sawing Belgorod
Valuychik
Slavic-Chalk Svyatogorsky
Schebekeno
Stroymat
Peter and Paul Fortress
Cambrian blue clay
Baked clay
Kaolin clay Prosyanovsky
Akbulak lumpy
Chernigov chalk
Hrapovsky
Belogorka
Saffron milk cap
Fraction
May
Pyatnitsky
Red clay Ukraine
Clay Malachite
Voronezh
Kuzma
Anna
Ya
Yellow clay Ukraine
Bentonite clay Ukraine
Podvisli
Clay Blue Ukraine
Volokonovka2
Nonstandard
Kind
Gerbil
Clay white Sandin
Kazakhstan
Mountain
Volokonovka1
Stary Oskol
Vasilpole
Summer
Slavic chalk
White mountain
Soft clay
Novy Oskol
Blue clay Sandin
Pink chalk
Znamenskii
Pressed chalk
Badger
Assorted Crumb
Green clay Ukraine
Nafanja
Glinomel Sundae
Gubkin
Sawing Orenburg
Sevryukova
Kaolin Clay Lump Ukraine
White Clay Forest
Bogorodsky
Malomihaylovsky
Caramel
Alexandrite
Rainbow clay
Sumy chalk
Bohr
Cambrian clay Bottlenose Dolphin
Dobryy2
Suburban
Kaolin clay Chelyabinsk
Blue clay Ukraine
Aleekseevsky
Clay Blue Velvet

5.

The single person begins to notice nuances in clay varieties.
Boreal forest clay touched by decaying pine oils, rare sesquiterpenes.

A few people eat chunks of iron with their clay and develop a heavy cough.

6.

USING CHALK TOO MUCH
IN THE FLOW OF CHALK
CLIFF FACES ERASING THEMSELVES
BOILED CHALK       CHALK AND
CHALK       EATING LAST STOCK OF CHALK

SOMETHING CHARRED
NOTHING BETTER TO EAT THAN CINDERS

SO EATS THE SINGLE PERSON
      SET THE TABLE INSIDE THE CHIMNEY

7.

Snake especially wants to eat limestone

and chalk, and when she enters, the chalk

will hear the story of the brine
and this entertains the chalk.
These small things, sticks, grass, meals,

Sliding her big chalk chalk eyes over.
Smoothing her large eyes with chalk.

Bless this close-up photography
with chalk.       Recognize some of the animals above.