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A Poem by Vol
Chaos
lingers in our garden...
rocks
in slopes of bare earth,
uninvited
seedlings of that hardhearted Locust
on
the fringe; an encroachment ..
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A Poem by Vol
The
October ground was still warm enough
at
six this morning so the cold front laid in
a
fog thicker than yesterday’s when my road rose
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A Poem by Vol
The air
is thick with the
blue of
dark, and the light
of our
great beacons are
nothing
more than tendrils
of
dissipation.
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A Poem by Vol
Abstract
nouns laid down
willy-nilly
and where would
we
be without them? I mean
Words
without substance are
a
little-gray-cell party, the wal..
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A Poem by Vol
When I die, please
don’t say,
“He
passed…” I did not pass,
I
DIED!
I
kicked the bucket,
bought
the farm, bit..
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A Poem by Vol
On the other side of the patio
are
the flowers she planted
in
the terraces;
Spiderwort,
Black Eyed Susans,
and
Dianthus
nod
their heads..
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A Poem by Vol
I don’t want to draw
attention
to the physical affliction I
know
is the completion of your
life.
The way you still pleasure a
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A Poem by Vol
Isn’t
it weird,
how
things recur
with
such precision?
It’s
a question for God,
or
at least this mechanic
I
know at the ..
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A Poem by Vol
I was sitting right here
just a second ago, but
WAIT!
the sun is hauling us
through space at,
four hundred forty eight
thousand mi..
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A Poem by Vol
A
thousand miles later, and
after midnight, I pull out of the
fog
where the Texas wind has
painted
the sides of things
with a coating of ..
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