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A Poem by Vol
The
writing seminar broke for ten minutes.
I
went outside the ivory tower to feed
mysmokingdemon
in the shade of an awning.
I
carefully pack..
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A Poem by Vol
Sometimes at the edge of the
pasture,
and
under the eaves of trees, the soft
greens
of spring slide through my eyes
and
paint the curves and ..
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A Poem by Vol
The
writing seminar broke for ten minutes.
I went outside the ivory tower to feed
my
smoking
demon in the shade of an awning.
I
carefully p..
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A Poem by Vol
Sometimes
I can
move
with the music,
sometimes
not.
These
scars on my knees
and
the palms of my hands
bear
witness to a path littered ..
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A Poem by Vol
Where was I
before I was here?
This identity,
This personality?
This consciousness?
How did I coalesce?
Am I just a bunch of ne..
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A Poem by Vol
I like
to walk in the woods
without
paths or trails. You see,
I
follow Papa. That old man would
cut
a walking stick when he’d tak..
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A Poem by Vol
Someone’s
watching
all
the time, you know?
I’m
not talking about the cameras,
omnipresent,
becoming omniscient;
looking
d..
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A Poem by Vol
When
she needs to talk
I
can feel it in my
stomach
where anxiety lives,
and
anger, and
butterflies.
It
is genetic, I think, he..
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A Poem by Vol
Momma's
yellow table
had
chrome legs
and
chairs to match.
The
whole family
ate
buttermilk biscuits,
fresh
eggs and a hundred
..
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A Poem by Vol
The Idyllic dreams of what
once was...
when we agreed that right was
better
than wrong, and knew the
difference,
when we always aimed hi..
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