The Magic Border by Arlo Parks

Author:Arlo Parks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2023-07-29T00:00:00+00:00

Midday, Fukushima Gardens

The boy is about to faint,

rain-glazed and peroxide blond,

the scar the pitbull left

dapples his forearm like white oil.

Something crystallises in his features, it gushes and kicks.

His mouth is a blood crust.

Suddenly I picture him

tiny and ice-cream smeared

pawing at scutch grass in a yellow anorak –

I want to give him the beauty at the brim of my eyes, to say

please do not do this to us.

Impurities

Song 2

Piling in the Escalade my chest is buzzing like a bluebird caged

Laugh like Juliette Binoche you touch my leg to make sure I’m

still there

I radiate like a star, like a star when you embrace all my impurities

and I feel clean again

Oh the look you threw me then was so intense that it was physical

You’re the rainbow in my soap you notice beauty in more forms

than most

I radiate like a star, like a star when you embrace all my impurities

and I feel clean again

Don’t hide the bruise when you know I’m watching baby I know it’s

hard to be alive sometimes

I radiate like a star

When you embrace all my impurities and I feel clean again

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