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A Poem by Vol
Sometimes,
when you catch me rapt,
it
is because in my overactive neural-net
the
phosphorous ions are
bouncing along
on
an
imagined ..
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A Poem by Vol
I
have committed suicide
several
times by now
but
always seem to
live
through it...
Suicide
by love
Suicide
by children
Suicide
by a..
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A Poem by Vol
On the other side of this
wall,
cold waitswith teeth bared
and a sneerwhile I can do
nothing to hold it at bay.
Erato sleepswith back..
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A Poem by Vol
The
cars my father drove
would
wrap themselves around curves
and
we barely noticed the centrifugal forces,
unlike
the slippery aluminum an..
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A Poem by Vol
When
we first met,
she
used me the way
Renoir
used red.
We
danced red too,
a
saxophone tango,
Le
petite morte of..
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A Poem by Vol
I sometimes did an experiment
with my students because
perspective
is
everything, well, except for the
lies we tell ourselves.
Bec..
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A Poem by Vol
There is something about
a thousand shades of green
and what it does when you
are alone in the woods with
all
that wet air and th..
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A Poem by Vol
Enya
floats
in the background
and
something in her music
reminds
me of the time Sylvia
took
me along for a hike
through
the trees ..
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A Poem by Vol
I watched her walk because
she is so good at it, and
as I have said,
“excellence is its own
reward,”
I don’t know what ..
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A Poem by Vol
The
flutter of a newborn leaf
shines
like a perfect word chosen
to
speak the color green into the wind.
Her
happy shush~shush like a muted
c..
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