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Month: September 2019

Sinking Sonnet

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I’ll drift into this abyss forever.Everything here is inescapable.The facts, the fiction. The line between truthand truth posing as truth…

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Landscape with Color by Numbers

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students carry backpacksbooks in handclasses will start soon i hurry to get coffeeyou’re heading backto our department office as i…

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Mama Says

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Thank God we didn’t lose anyone this summer / when we were kids / this heat brought news of the…

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Mise-en-scène

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She is the landscape, colors that invitethe dance of rain and shadow, morning’s bloomthat brushes summer with soft autumn pinks,and…

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Desalination

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I gave birth to four oceans. You came forth like waters fed by mountain stream. Commitment and desire -snow-pure and…

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Traffic

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—after the Spring 2019 butterfly migration We killed them when they drifted in our lanes.It was hard not to kill…

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tonight, i look to the sky

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for not the first time, but it’s been longsince i saw daddy in the clouds. my road triproutine washed like…

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Where the bones are piled

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You, lake, were the mighty waterway of my childhood, artificial as I knew you to be. Dredged by depression-era optimists,…

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what the tide brings me

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three sprays of lavender & the copper coin i gamble into theair. to be, or not to be. last night…

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the etymology of surrendering

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tell me the history of giving up build sand castles out of my ashes, yeah, blow me away all my…

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