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A Poem by JR
I believe like me you have fallen to your knees in worship
I believe like me you have traced the stars with your
fingernail
You’ve drawn ..
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A Poem by JR
Time stretches out before us
as a series of towers, Hadrian’s Wall
into the horizon
the dead still make their rounds
boots now light..
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A Poem by JR
Snowshoe, we took the ridge line parallel to Parley’s Summit
I was bundled in my blue coat, she in her red
we bled our colors into the whi..
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A Poem by JR
Loss of ritualstolen windsomething familiar, past, now removedstolen muscleshabit creatures, we tend to run the usual pathswe crave the typicaldoing t..
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A Poem by JR
I am a specimen of my species and I know it
when younger I would bring the storm,
four legs, thunder clicks across the kitchen tile
I know ..
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A Poem by JR
Within this mirror she can only see herself
she stares day after day, adjusting her hair
color and cut, cover the age, fixing it over her should..
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A Poem by JR
The house looked so durable, despite its age
I can only tell so much from the outside
settled itself on the hill just a little above all the res..
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A Poem by JR
Ascension is a wet progress
(twenty becomes ten)
complex, like the lathe that turned this cap
a study of pressure and time
(ten becomes si..
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A Poem by JR
Every green leaf, no matter how small
will turn to fire red in the fall
and every red leaf, no matter the bend
will turn brown when death com..
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A Poem by JR
You’ve gotten into my blood
when I never thought it would happen again
you’re changing the chain of my cortex
coloring the tempo ..
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