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Once I was so lonely, I spent all night talking to an android, her pursed lips whispering thick as a ...
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Then it’s three years since—since displacement then it’s flesh on foil and planks spilling out oilcloth remnants—then we are formless, ...
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Holy men pitched tents on my grandmother’s farm land. They trickled into 1975 fed by an ancient spring, while everyone ...
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A blocked valve facilitates prayer. A blocked airway inspires a sudden reinvestment in the communicative powers of miming. A blocked ...
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In the first motion, I wrapped everything in newspaper, emptied glass stones from the bottoms of fishbowls, recycled the recyclables, ...
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There is a ceremonial volley over a grave I climb on the branch of an olive tree to peep at ...
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A Civil War cannonball dug from a field near Petersburg now props open the door. He shows me in. The ...
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We knew without speaking your left eye open just a crack caught between moans and a gasp. I toss in ...
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at park's edge a storm appeared returning from its tour of Vienna, and the car sped away in dust devils, ...
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For three nights we watched Vietnam documentaries, mom slipping into the TV, the TV blooming the blossom of '68 back ...
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He doesn't notice the desert. The smell of the dead rising, birds or fish, saltwater feeding on air or salt ...
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I wear my love for foxgloves on my digits, nibble on each to slow the fibrillations ...
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In the ground, the real never of a boy How a couple recovers I do not know Whose heart Agony ...
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We gave ourselves matching haircuts but only temple rye cures. Temper your dog but only scaremongering ignites crows. Shared the ...
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On the eve .....of never forgetting.....I still want to run away.....from you together..... or not run..... but bite or register ...
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If I could be anywhere in the Fall it would be Korea walking rubberized pavement to the top of Namsan ...
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He taught me how to bend their arms so they stayed. To solder them solid with lead and resin, perfect ...
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When coarse human events become necessary, people dissolve, a gloom powers profit, the claws of paper and paper’s God hold ...
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Some still see the shadow of the earth’s other moon, a ghost satellite over a ghost tide before one light ...
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Before the puppet show, Melissa and I split a stolen Valium. As the children gathered, a dreamy feeling descended on ...
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Call to me at the bottom of the stairs and wrap me in your breathless summering. Confession: my lips are ...
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My favorite thing About Keats Is his belief that I might Leave the world unseen I once left An imaginary ...
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Meanwhile, in the airy labyrinth, in a bathtub full of corn liquor, in the red barn on a hillside. While ...
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The palm trees outside the window are waiting to wed. But the officiate is late. They stare at each other, ...
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