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playing with prose poems
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I understand now the line
I crossed that day, like
a cuckoo bird who steals nests
to push the other yolks out, I stole
a string of words built for..
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there is an appetite
in warm weather, a desire
to speak in just the right
syllable, transcending
the garrulous, to conjure and
coax from the ribs..
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I am, I am fullfilling
short and long histories.
All ties, where knots
have confounded fingers,
to loosen these white devotion
ribbons, they s..
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the things I would say
if they were not heresies: (sucking
out the stains I marked by finger tips,
in coils to count seasons, the track of veins
u..
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i just read somewhere
(maybe orion, an old copy, a story
I had passed by that Erhlich
had written) about the northern
hemisphere shedding it's gla..
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In a Neruda sky, you
are like a cloud. I remember
one afternoon marveling
at the colors aground
of the green against the sky,
the layers of p..
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I suspect
sometimes
I have not lived enough:
having the time of my life
seemed foolish, so cautious
with my vessel,
that I must be careful ..
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a beginner's mind, already
mined of all its small silly
Saturday attachments. The
expected eggs like eyes, and
half a biscuit buttered. The
met..
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