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Evolutionary Barb
bait the hook with something that looks like them / and flashes in the long dark / like another eye sharing the little light / other air awaits / hueless except for those increasing dangerous days / the first time there’s a song there / prepare for slivers in the lungs / feel that space…
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Dec 20
leave life alone / let it twist blindly in the culvert / grab its own way out / of that steel vein, if ever / never having children is a loss / for the plastics industry / lope to the edge of the falls / and pronounce “enough” clearly / all roads lead to roam…
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Light Out Intersection
between the dream and the doze / spruce beetles chatter into / the beams overhead / it’s not exactly an evoked place / evoking a peculiar intonation of time / but item circled in the abstract catalogue / dropping on the doorstep / assuming christmas even in july / the melt from march isn’t even…
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Get Well Card for an Ideal
history is not taught / to the people it happens to / something else is seen at the time / an actual spleen, muscular organ / tumbling down the street / even without a back wind / it rolls over glass pieces / and abandoned strollers / write a song backwards / that’s a real…
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A Murder in the Skies
nature notices us / measuring our veins / to tie the hedges together / in a wet knot / I’m fortunate / there has always been a floor / floating high enough / for a crawl space below / enough elbow room to get lost for decades / mind the crows overhead / they’ll remember…