i'm going to publish a mike young poem on my blog

mike wrote me this poem after i donated money to NOÖ Journal.

i think i only provided mike with the title.

i hope you enjoy this as much as i do.

SWAMP YURT THE SWIMSUIT EDITION

for Daniel Bailey

Here in the overcoat of my heart you're a burrowed parakeet.
My anxiety's the phantom gut lump kind. Sometimes you turn
hands and hands in a kind of sign language just outside the
frame, and this is the style of exchange I'd most like to learn.
How much curry versus coconut milk? Is everybody made of
history a...