Encopresis


from the Greek κοπρος [kopros, dung]), also known as paradoxical diarrhoea. this is involuntary fecal soiling in adults and children who have usually already been toilet trained. persons with encopresis often leak stool into their undergarments, sometimes as a result of the perceived pleasure of holding one’s stool in



The music room is emptying

I am beyond noses

in a maroon-banded tie

And busying Miss Something or other with novelty

Self-hypnosis

pallid unties cheek beetroot charms

giddy

keeping cover behind ginger brick

shaping a middle destiny

of an elfin shame



Then my daughter wrings her face for grip

and I erect teacherly

for our first words about its stains

as if all shitty things smell better in time