Damon Hubbs

Mother Horror

Mother horror wasn’t always horrible. 
It started when I fucked that boy.
The tree was a nude model taking up arms 
And we sludged oil on copper. 

I count her age spots like she counted my baby teeth,
Bootsole-sized rosettes liver hands and neck.
Poachers band below her eyes,
Species royalty wreathed in purple storms.

Wellbutrin to fix me well. 
Mother horror’s idea
After she red hands me 
Plucking feathers from her ostrich purse.

With notebook and Bic
The good doctor strums his dick. 
I say, father was eaten by blackbirds 
The size of gas pumps

Mother horror 
And I 
Left him to cool like an apple pie 
On the windowsill 

Our pains thinned 
In a solvent of flames.

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