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Here
I am once again, sitting once again
talking
to myself in pen, once again
talking
to myself talking
to
you i..
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**Published in San Antonio Review 2023
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Our
house isn’t really a house;
our
home sits on wheels,
a
trailer, a single-wide on the left side
..
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It’s
morning, early, white vapors girdle
the
trees, and I shiver sitting alone
on
a fallen log, a dark lump on a white c..
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A
princess and a dragon
both
lived inside a bottle
swallowed
by a cow, how
often
they battled, battling
and
bashin..
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There
is no doubt that mothers are better
than
fathers unless you're a daughter
at
which point it gets complicated.
..
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How
do sparrows stay so merry
when
their lives must be filled
with
drudgery? They seem so happy
unless
battling each o..
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While
asleep, my eyes open
in
order to see inside my dream
while night presses warm against me
like a
hen sitting on e..
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During
the dark hours, the stars poured down
and
they unraveled and whitened as they fell;
bitter
cold they
were..
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Fear
I the ocean
Currents
Power
tugging
And
tugging
And
unrelenting
Bound
by birth
To
the moon
Tugging
and tugging
Curre..
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