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Freckle
nosed girls
borrow
sand-whittled shells
into
shoe boxes,
place
them along high shelves,
their
tippy-toe reached
treasure
trove of..
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Troubled
genius blooms
on my family's fetid tree,
leaves
falling to the ground
like loaves of stale bread,
light
bulbs extinguished
under
bus..
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Climbing hills to their summit
to see as far as I dared,
the ends of the earth
how they tilted and swayed
and buckled
under the weight of m..
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This
sly winter raised its bare,
wide
arms, stark and still
with
empty expectation,
buried
leaf and whispering,
mock-spry
bud under
pristine..
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Your
body seems to lay
at
high altitude
where
the air is thin and
empty
of your voice
where
a garland of roses
instead
is
found for me
..
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Word envy
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A meandering rant at history's expense.
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Those
scarlet years
have
turned to a blue black haze
a
punch paltry sway of
lush
broke memory
gravy
thickened middle
favoring
the left si..
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She haunted the attic
staring at a TV screen,
until the national anthem rang an alarm,
belly swollen with teenage angst.
She drank milk from the c..
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Abstract,
flashing images, married by blood...
Spreading
dark raven wings across the surfaceof
reflective waters, cloaked in moonlight, swoopingbl..
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