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The garden has been walled in.Inside, it swells with vegetation.Everyone can smell it but no onecan see it: the magnolia petals,pink and brown and vel..
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The trees shake the rain from themselvesand the rain hits the window.I’m embarrassed since my room’s a mess,to have the rain and its taste..
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Snow White
Like the queen I look to the looking glass and ask it
who’s the fairest. Ella’s face appears. She is my
Snow Whi..
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The sun heats the pond till it rises, invisible.Clouds cast shadows on the hilltops.Do you recognize my perfume?It’s the same the wet grass wear..
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I’m sitting in a field, sipping wine the colorof wind. Wind is the color of water, so maybethe wine is water. I’m too drunk to tell.Two ki..
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The rainstorm churns inside the clouds. We watch the dance of branches and blossoms chart the wind. You say you’re thinking of leaving, you&rsqu..
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Birds twitter. Ferns unfurl. The sky looks like the inside
of a geode, so if you’ve never seen a geode, go out and
see the sky. Don&rsqu..
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*Work-in-progress; I will add more as I write more
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SNAKE: It was night. It was blacker than frostbitten skin. I coiled around her feet. I offered up the apple, saying, “Eve itisn'tsin, and itisn'..
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Rae scrapes a shaft of light off the wall.She folds it like a sheet of paper, overand over, till she’s made a swan.She carries him outside on he..
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