Oil on canvas. 30X40 cm. 
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I flung out of the loose cottage and stood on the ragged path the door beating shut behind me. There was a birch forest...
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Zacchaeus

I fell asleep in church with sweet butterscotch under my tongue, head resting on Jesus. The preacher, a hyperopic guy wearing spectacles to read, speaks toward the future. My wife never fails to remind...
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Author's note: Lochbuie on the Isle of Mull is off the main road and a good way down a narrow single track of the...
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My opponent will win unless you send money. My opponent has more money. Please send money. We can’t win without your money. Please send money. It costs money to save...
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The cemetery was the place​ to read on weekend mornings by the reedy little lake, and afterwards clean off some graves in back corners, you know those— stones knocked...
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My Chaste Eye

Call me Worm Eye; Paschal Eye, Lenten eye, Crow eye, Crust eye, Sugar eye, Sap eye. All these names I am, full in a daylight...
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The old oak tree was felled because, she said, it didn’t fit the yard anymore. It blocked the view from the window and from the street. Too much shade killed...
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Bugged

Honey bee on a manuka flower, and unidentified wasp, possibly Family Chalcididae. Photograph taken in New Zealand with a Nikon D500 camera and a...
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Zealots

I discovered a dark cloud in my closet. I tried it on. It was soft & moist on my skin. I wore it to church. It’s a...
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Parents, hear, whatever may come, you, you made life. If that is not your reason to drop down on your kitchen floor; to rubble turned or marble made,...
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Procession

Procession Pencil, ink, ink brush and dip pen, graphic ink pen, watercolour on Strathmore Bristol 500 Series semi-smooth 100% cotton paper - 52cm x 30cm ________________________________________________________________________
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Harbour and Creels, Abandoned, South Harris ________________________________________________________________________ Callanish Standing Stones 1, Lewis ________________________________________________________________________ Callanish Standing Stones 2, Lewis ________________________________________________________________________ Fisherman's Bothy 1, Lewis ________________________________________________________________________ Fisherman's Bothy 2, Lewis ________________________________________________________________________
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.view.

there is a nice long beach and lovely views out to sea the sea that is rising  
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a neon green frog grows on my keyboard imagine if he asks me do I need a lift to the fair? shall I go exposed or displayed? or put a...
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16" X 30". Collage of oil paint, stencil, grease pencil, old newsprint, and photo copies of old photos applied to a masonite panel over...
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Smaller infinities hide in larger ones; they lurk between whole numbers, taunt us with infinite half distances and prospects of non-arrival. Words have only so many positions, but poets,...
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Got a little blue when the band started playing easy tunes remember Ciarán when we were young, wasting away energies happy days come, gone tonight there's a meeting in the conference room and the ferry trawls...
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I am Baba Yaga, a hag, a toothless blend of wrong and right. I fear only the knights known as Morning Evening and Night. I live...
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Two Poets

I'm torn between two poets: one yearns for the scent of bread and the other longs for soup; the bomb crater is a fireless hearth and the clay bowl is broken...
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I never knew what to say until the next spring when my child couldn’t wait to tell me the spot we buried his favorite fish was full of flowers.
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I was here on the cliff at glan-y-mor, his reverie. Below, the boathouse, washed a pastel shade of lemon doused by sea mists of the Afan...
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Silence My heartbeat outpaces the wall clock, the coffee maker exhales, old rain drips in the downspout, the dog wags her tail in her sleep, my right ear rings...
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out the cafeteria window of this skyscraper on the edge of lower Manhattan, I can see the waters below, waves and foams serpentine behind ships and boats. The...
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sometimes you know i have no clue as to what is occurring here or over there find it challenging and disappear
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Afterlife

1. Afterwards, we asked the mystery and were told nothing but starlight. It spoke to the hinge of small bones where memory reverses, the place we must find you...
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Clouds so low they move         against themselves in parallax,                         putty gray on an icy blue. The boat moves too                     on top of inky waves     bouncing in the sprays                             that should...
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The Tannhäuser Gate - 1 Pencil, black and coloured ink, watercolour, graphic ink pen on cartridge drawing paper - 48cm x 27cm   ________________________________________________________________________ The Tannhäuser Gate -...
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          Editor’s Note: Photographs of bronze sculptures by world-renowned Colombian artist, Fernando Botero (1923-2023), in a park where twenty-three of his sculptures are displayed in...
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group of women facing backward

Sisters

Summer itself got into the fire last night we all felt the gasp. Shell looked at me and made a sort of explosion face before...
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1. The bullets of your absence left holes in the flesh of the sky. 2. I cannot enjoy the status of grief - it is too remarkable, open-ended, growing in...
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Call 911 she said her chest felt like a siren blare, I’m scared, we’re there atop the landing. She’s climbed the stairs she couldn’t wait for me to come to...
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The Ancients

O wild cat, flat on your back with your head on my arm, old-man belly exposed and legs occasionally twitching in their natural dreams, your serious claws knead the breast of instinctive sky past my...
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Day Trip with Dog

My dog & I set out for a mountain lake ringed by pine trees. There were ducks preening in the water. Some of them quacked. They sounded happy. My dog lapped...
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Miami Docks

Acrylic on canvas; 24" X 36"  
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black and gray stones during daytime

7:55a.m.

One day my body will collapse without reminiscence, all solicitations at an end & my tourist credentials confirmed in this life, I have existed as coal in the...
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We move slow and there are grapes drying in the sun, sweet on the front of everything. We fumble keychains of where we are, in the shop and there's...
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man walking at blacktop road with turned on streetlights

Afterlight

Today, as I walked from the kitchen, a wave of sadness blindsided me; I asked if it would kindly wait and steal my composure a bit later when...
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September’s End

1. Here is the novelty of cooler air, at once fostered and ruined by rain. 2. I am the inside of a garment being tested for colorfastness; my hands are...
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terlingua

there’s a presence in the wind-blown sand hovering in the rippling cool of winter stacked stones of an old graveyard unrecognizable but for the crosses i remember sisters...
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tell us things, take us without consent. there are no records
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Generations

(Editor's note: Composite photography using Adobe software and Nikon camera)
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the sun was out looking like the butter on my French toast
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forest against sunlight at daytime

Abscission

autumn reminds me creation comes home that death is not a separation life is
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orange Persian cat sleeping

Cats

Remember when I tucked you into an old sock up to your chin and then washed you in the kitchen sink after I had found you in the street infested with fleas,...
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Metazure

My wristwatch checks me for the time, my verse expects a metered rhyme; my wallet hits me up for loans, my secrets beg to be unknown; my Chevy...
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In a Forest

If a tree falls the question goes and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound but no one is never not around the true...
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The musty shed with the slanted roof collects rot like the Blair Witch collects teeth. Inside it there are two freezers, one that buzzes,...
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Salsa with Doubt

(I) Ten minutes into the shower, I fail to recall if I have applied a body wash & rinsed— I just check the armpit of my non-dominant hand. (II) After...
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Morning Visit

He was at the breakfast table, Sunlight angled through the window, And I said, “I haven’t seen you In so long. Where have you been?” He said sunlight...
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grey and blue train on train station during daytime

I Got Bats

Every so often – such a vague beginning I know but stick with me – every so often Marty calls me on the telephone,...
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Jack was tired of endless approximations; he couldn’t quite pin down the things that seemed important —god, explanations, love, even life itself. Nothing was...
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I saw a rusty white truck go by he had branches in the bed and I wished I was riding with him I’ll call him Eric and he...
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I entered your bedroom that Sunday morning when no one was looking, saw my mother in the middle of the floor with you on her, winking at...
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Snowfire

All day we laboured under the threat of rain: faced hedges with a slasher, cut weeds with a scythe, mended gaps in fences, shovelled out of...
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In the sleeper class from Pune to Aurangabad I sat across from a man. Next to him, on his bag, a book with ducks...
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Simple lines create ruses that what is complex can be understood. An artist’s detail of heads and legs are but the medium for admiring curved lines...
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she’s too exhausted for a poet had gotten paid good by a muscleman in a blues band to be his hanger on at the strip club and now that he’s gone she’s depleted in 8...
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a black and white photo of a classroom

Two Requests

August 31, 2023 To: Ms. Theresa Cotter Eldercare at Mayfield Village, Inc. 290 North Commons Blvd Mayfield Village OH 44143 Dear Ms. Cotter: I hope you don’t mind me writing to...
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I take books from shelves, and set out my store of usually useful things: pens and brushes, knives, and keys that I put to work, to continue the...
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I woke before sunrise, or birds woke me, or perhaps the dog— I walked her while still mildly asleep, brain fog-shrouded— then I returned to bed, and dreamt of...
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Abruptly

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ocean under sunlight

Absolution

born sick raised to get well repenting a sin never committed admission to hobnob with the holy wrathful in eternal happiness
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First, the old-fashioned dial tone, zenith of nothingness. Who invented that? The almost-silent radio after Country Carl’s sign-off prayer, Blues singer fading to needle hiss as a Victrola winds down in an...
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a close up of a person laying on a bed

Tied Down

By mid-day, I’d taken too many calls, typed too many letters, and dropped too many memos on the desks of VPs who called me 'hon.' I told my boss Gary I...
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Early Autumn Colours

One of my favourite sights in early autumn is to see the fields of goldenrods against the green foliage and the blue of the...
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I feel like reading somebody else’s book today maybe even on their couch or if they have a boat my presence on the water I...
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Blackbird

i had an emotion today but don’t know its name there was a blackbird on the lawn 10 feet away head cocked eyeing or listening i watched then she bent...
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Uncle John was a bullshitter through and through. People always came up to me and said, astonished, things like I didn’t know your uncle was...
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The holy man looks to the stars, tells time by the weight of the sky on his shoulders. He says that the end is new seed, each day...
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a statue of jesus on a cross in a church

An Admission

It’s ridiculous to think we don’t disappoint someone every moment of every day. If father admits never having son’s back, it’s his revelation to ponder. No thing for a son to...
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yellow and red lily in bloom during daytime

Of the Moment

We will always have pariahs and darlings, wars and rumors of wars, plenty of old hatchets to exhume and soft centers to exploit. I'd rather contemplate the spaces between raindrops, marvel...
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Hurt

Expressionism | 13 × 20 Cm | On Paper | 2023 Material: Acrylic, White Gesso, Gouache
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do not resuscitate this harsh dismantling of the self I cannot live this way any longer fractured dreams drooling out of my mouth as I sleep in...
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I sat up and read the alarm clock dial from the bed. 10 a.m. It was too late. I should have been at work...
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Fitgirl Repack

the relentless drip drip drip tedium of my sobriety is matched only by the cliché predictability of a relapse so, i displace any program into a holding pattern closer to interference than a pathway it's mechanical knowledge capable of allowing a functional indulgence with a detox...
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I dreamed she got a tattoo my mother on her back she lowered her robe for me to see a map. It looked like North and South America silhouetted in black. She...
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a pile of white toilet paper sitting next to each other

Last Call

The day she fell my mother had 30 rolls of toilet paper neatly on her linen closet shelves. The list of things I might not do again, like...
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The radio plays funeral music. Mother enters my dream, acknowledges love is a sail and sets me adrift. Perception is only one part of the whole. Come morning my boat has...
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I stepped in vomit today it oozed between my toes I write this because it’s not everyday you step in your own filth wait, actually it is
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organs all thumping my bones a glistening forehead sweat gathering in small gangs raw fingers running around my temples cuticles gnawed away dried blood in the crevices manic voicemails at 3...
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the prongs are there to use don't get your fingers dirty a lot of nice things are sticky the viscous snot ball the brown bruised banana flesh there are...
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man holding concrete ceiling

where do we start…

to make amends to the world, to voices in the wind denied by closed windows, to ghosts old and new that pick and fret at loose threads, to all...
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Oh, for god's sake, let’s not talk about the coming winter or soldiers waiting outside, rifles readied— wave them in for a gin. A ‘40s hit song...
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  PUFFIN ROCK ___________ YELLOW CROWNED HERON LAGOON ___________________________ THE MIDNIGHT SONS _________________  
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The Various

When I was quite young, our neighbors’ daughter was going to school to be a teacher and had learned from her parents I spent many hours...
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Lahaina

“Hawaii wildfires burn historic town of Lahaina 'to the ground'” - BBC I remember coffee-flavored ice cream at the Royal Scoop, how it made me long to...
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a lit up box sitting on top of a table

The Poem

I completely cracked it yesterday. Everyone I showed it to agreed. The Professor of Creative Writing covered his mouth and ran from the room. It even made my...
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2 face studies

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As I sat with my book and glass of Chardonnay one Monday on the patio, a fly flew by, and as I flicked my wrist to sweep it on...
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Let everything in

Let everyone in. Let in a flinty-eyed coal miner from Elk Creek, and a tiny cleaning lady who lives above a bakery in Uppsala....
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they kept the dress in a locked trunk in the attic gathering dust for decades forgotten when they passed away—one following the other as is often the case— and years slid...
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man swimming on body of water

Fuck Yeah Dude

There are words that do the poetry, they are endless, you can get the lawn the way it was light and dark, always moving,...
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 the language of the finest wool  and metaphors splashed throughout as vivid colors of sky white cobalt blue and blood red  while its opaque meaning is well- hidden in an abstract motif  but that sheen —what a...
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eighteen years it’s a lifetime hair changes teeth most of all yet his accent no softer he doesn’t ride any more but the stains remain blood and grease grace and danger his...
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for Grand-Dude

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mountain covered with fogs

Mist

Today cannot decide. I linger, eyes at half-mast, beneath a dome of curdled milk and a star sleeping in. I pretend to exist until I take form, like a watercolor bleeding...
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knick knack

I have molded this Maine morning into a smooth glass swallow for your sill, to shore up the sharp clean cerulean & remind you of the real sky & me.
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photography of yellow lights

fluid encryptions

he sits at his desk writing poems in his head stares out at the clouds attempts to decode Nature's own writ in dripping cyphers on the panes
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it’s August and nobody’s listening but you I had to leave it’s like some hyperactive child is coloring in the nights with black crayons the scribbles getting in my...
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I said do not simplify I fucking understand my opinion differs from yours but I fucking get it I do not require repetition, new angles greater enunciation volume or analogies I knew he’d fucking...
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Golden Silence

From this angle, a day’s last rays make embers of cattails bent in supplication to an unrepentant wind trying to force the Colorado into retrograde. A...
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free-range poets

roam the yards flock to the sound of an opening door hoping for scraps tossed our way tasty, random, diverse cluck and quibble scrabble in life's compost pile double-scratch for juicy tidbits snatch...
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green grass field during daytime

How Exciting!

I'm mowing the lawn in a different direction!
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purple roses and blood red candy a passerby who knows the secret you withhold from everyone else they keep the confession in their haunted spirit lay it on the altar make a...
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pink petaled flower

Recess

Schoolyard children rush the chain link fence, rattle the metal breathlessly, ask the man in the wheelchair: "What happened to your feet!"
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When a mountain is dismantled from eons of wind and rain, how can I say it’s gone? When it has fondly spread itself across this land re-shaping the terrain. When...
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or divorce or some means by which the poor lass is on her own, My lass, without fail, will ask me: What are you here for? Tell me. Why...
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I’ll die. I’ll go brain dead. I mean, I’ll be here but in some straw wrapper exiting through the skull and brain matter. What’s the matter? They’ll all say trying to...
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Rage

Abstract Expressionism | 12 × 16 Cm | On Paper | 2023 Material: Acrylic, Gouache
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Stump

Sun sliced through the window warming my face, my skin tinted pink by skinny morning clouds. Mom was sleeping. Harry was up. His footsteps creaked just above where I stood, running water...
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After A Death

Grief rides its own wavelength, reconciliation earns an expiration date, regret becomes a badge; some songs turn unlistenable, but we listen anyway. I check myself for a heartbeat. Trains run...
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italian blue

somewhere between a full irish breakfast in galway & a sunny sail on the mediterranean, i dove between gentle waves, swam circles on my side so i’d never...
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i feel so goddamn happy, sometimes i wanna take the damn out of God grab fistfuls of his oxygen steal that single beam of pure sunlight slicing thru the east window crush them together melt 'em like crayons over that precious Picasso
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woman inside black car

Every Play

The hurried girls in flight the mighty half to rule the rabid roasting meat and placing it on the dirty tray I'd like to say I depend...
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Walking wide-eyed, the child drops to his knees, for the stream is all around and flowing. He lifts the rock, the water slurping its way beneath with...
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Every once in a while I feel a love story coming on it’s like nourishment. I don’t even remember who shot JR about that summer...
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a group of people posing for a photo

Verities

tenets of the most devout are tempered with a tinge of doubt; every joyous moment spent will cost a hundred in lament; beauty passes in a flash, reduced to...
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The wind will change color and we will go fishing at daybreak even as things can’t happen as they did before but approximation of the past is...
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She calls to me across the pasture. Over here, I answer. Grasses shrink from her big yellow teeth as she approaches— weeds don’t know a mare's gentleness. And I still miss...
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moon photography

Fool Moon

the star of the show out for a daytime stroll masquerading as a round cloud wearing designer shades trying to go unnoticed before tonight’s big performance
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brown and white mushroom on green grass during daytime

The Vapours

The windows weep for wilder air to sweep the ghost imprisoned where   I sleep these widow weedy days; your smell still bathes my pillow case - love’s detritus...
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nautilus

(Rotring Isograph and Pigma Microns pens on mixed media paper) 
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The Dusts

These dust motes, so gently pirouetting, can, from certain angles in slanted light, reform to embody the departed. Libraries are full of such airborne ghosts moving quietly between...
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when you decide not to isolate any longer & a bird shits on your ice cream cone as you walk along the midway at the state fair so you take out your pocket knife &...
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betrayed by flesh: blood beats tattoos against the underside of skin flushed in steady push to expand surface area on palms and soles, prime targets for a body demanding to be...
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i had mistaken myself for the graveyard somewhere history closed its circle with an indifferent embrace mundane acknowledgements of life were carved on granite marble sandstone skull scapula and...
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The Sacrifice

i’m sorry i couldn’t go to your game today i was on the verge of capturing a universe in a grain of sand and i’m sorry i...
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There are exactly 8,041,272,548 humans on our planet.  The last one in the count is a feisty, baby girl named Maria-Angelica born in a Manilla slum to a...
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woman reflection on glass overlooking city at night

EVERYWHERE

lately I’ve been floating around I don’t want my feet on the ground that’s a drag I’d rather watch you from above I’d rather hover I need something to...
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girl in pink tank top beside girl in blue and white striped tank top

Epiphany

The gossip always the latest – if you want to know, she’s the one, you needn’t ask, she’ll just tell but; one day she just stops. When asked she replies that she’s been unkind, as if she...
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.june.

there was a gentle breeze going, then the sun came through.
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A Jew, a Christian & a Muslim walk into the bar. Each one orders a Day of Judgement on the rocks with a Resurrection of the Body chaser. A Buddhist walks...
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white paper lantern with light

Redshift

1. We begin as night watchers bringing news and lanterns; we end with the guilt and relief of a called-off search. 2. There is no fresh light, no star to see...
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1. Yesterday a rat snake crawled up into the eaves and into a mourning dove's nest of twigs. This morning we found five shells and yolk on the...
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Shadowscape

The photographer sees his shadow and becomes part of the landscape.
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Stanley Tucci is all in white and wears turquoise rings. If flirtation is a dance we dance the softest dance of breezes. He has eyes...
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focus photography of yellow-petaled flower

Daffodil

The daffodil is vicious as the fox, just softer in consumption— does not pursue another’s face beyond the garden wall—only the sun, the moon, the air and soily...
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it was that high school was a thousand different kinds of cruel this one got caught jerking off in the school bathroom that one fucked a goat it was...
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Chromium-24/7

They tore down a part of my hometown last week, imploded it to be precise, dissolved it from the inside as with cancer. A crowd came...
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closeup of dried soil

Remission

Mom hoed the dead soil outside her Section 8 housing, tossing in coffee grounds, potato peels, and the crumbs of a Little Debbie snack cake, butting her cigarettes in weeds, saying...
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The full moon was staring at me. I felt it in Braille. Thousands of little raised dots erupted on my skin. I lifted my hand to wave hello & found it fisted inside...
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lion lying on green grass at daytime

why poetry

love is a lion your head in its mouth poetry in your throat
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I was feeling down it was Memorial Day weekend and I just wanted to sit among nature along with a hundred other dumb souls nowhere to park, so...
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is the day I find the wolves you can count on that. I will follow along the s-curve of your path, the one that pings my search image and has...
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green and black lawnmower on green grass

Delusion

Tony next door is suddenly old I saw him yesterday curved behind his slow lawn mower and Eric across the street rickety with his shovel his wife, my age, a...
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Carla

Carla at the Veterans Crisis Line tells me she has never met with negativity like mine I didn't tell her I've met plenty of cross-dressing sockcuckers whose...
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He pointed it out like a carnival oddity​ a bearded lady or monkey playing guitar, perhaps an albino deer or lion with the head of an eagle....
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a black and white photo of a bench on a hill

nobody

knows the last time is the last time until it is.  
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a person walking down a path in the woods

the hurt

was worse than anything he could have imagined, but he didn’t want to dull it, so he put aside the glass... walked out in the yard and stared at the trees.
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this time by a bird whose aim was more direct, on target and effective than any of the critics who dislike me, my poems, my attitude, my way of writing or just my way of seeing things. this bird should...
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Wind & Trees

I mean, put my car in your pool you know we are never going to forestry school together no food, no water Omaha Beach ya know my heart looks...
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crumpled yellow ruled paper on gray panel

Presence

There are no words, only eyes in a silent world where your presence is enough; there is no time, only pure promise, memories like crumpled notes, and empty sugar packets, each with...
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too busy directing the marches he'll watch you fall smile as the nets fail the audience gasp and all that's left when the clowns have gone are the rabbits no miracles,...
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you mean it was the settings that were wrong yes. so, it was all your imagination? yes.
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I toss my hat onto the empty chair next to me
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i think it was 1969 and we were sitting on the floor in the front room of her house, playing records on the stereo. i remember playing Steppenwolf and Simon and Garfunkle. i...
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if you're reading this, you've already felt it: a tingle an itch, an ache you exist in a kind of hollow agony orbit: the cool knot pleasure, orgasm of a burning...
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When the city's in trouble beware the brooding hero whose beacon burns inside his chest to throw designs on nightly skies to dazzle unprotected eyes and wraps bleak wings...
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Gaia speaks as Mother Earth, whispers softly to her child Child answers Isis, goddess of trees and forests wild Pachamama swaddles babe and holds him to...
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Anomaly

I drive the same route daily, flip through the same stations, but today all my radio presets were phonemes and static. I ruled out the weather, because the sky...
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man wearing brown leather dress shoes stepping on brown wood

Addiction

I'm addicted to the abandoned rail trestle over Grindstone Creek it's far enough away to be romantic and it's in the woods I go there, eat the lunch I have brought...
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mountain pass during sunrise

Carry Me

After this pestilence is over if we are free again and I am still young enough We will go back to my birth mountains of Albuquerque and...
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black rotary dial phone on white surface

New Haiku

The next time I have ringing in my head I’m not gonna answer it
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I think I’m tired when I retire, I know I fall asleep. Something’s wrong, I don’t know what. I sit up wide-eyed wondering. I check the locks, I...
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man in black jacket sitting on brown wooden bench

Tat Tvam Asi

A painting called Life on a museum wall after hours hangs lifeless. The museum opens people stroll down the aisle pause at Life give Life meaning.
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purple flower on brown soil

Patience

Early May plums the size & color of green olives are well hidden among the emerald leaves. In the next months as they enlarge & purple & eventually fall & split open & when the...
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person wearing black denim bottoms near on body of water during daytime

Valid Title

Awake and voracious ... I feel like if I must violate the peace then so be it jump in the word pile give off an inexpensive...
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aqueous

the peace is as plentiful as the water surrounding this city moving away from its bays into its heart blue-gray permeates and the eyes are tempted at every turn to take in the wisdom that shimmers under its many bridges
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Tank Girl..series

Tank Girl - 1 Pencil, graphic ink pencil, coloured acrylic inks, ink brush, coloured pencils, chalk pastels, black ink on Strathmore Illustration Board - 42cm...
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selective focus photography of tape measure

Reflections II

I tell myself I am not as fat as I look & it’s true I do tell myself that— because I am a liar a big fat liar the scale agrees fuck the scale &...
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black and white whale in water

One Possible Reason

If I were an Orca off the coast of Portugal near the Straight of Gibraltar I’d try to sink your sailboat. How would you like it if I hovered...
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woman wearing brown scoop-neck sitting near airplane window while sleeping during flight

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I wished to be forever happy. It was granted. Now I don’t know what it means anymore.
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Shelley

Pencil, graphic ink pen, ink and brush on Daler-Rowney smooth Cartridge drawing paper - 52cm x 37cm
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Sunflower

When I was nineteen, lost, alone, depraved and often raving from the lack of food and meaning, walking the streets for days on end after dropping out of college...
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close up photo of tabby cat

The Cat

Klint rubs his knife clean against his dingy shirt. He thinks I never notice blood, metallic taste that lingers from a kiss, or his...
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Challenged

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green statue of liberty during daytime

The New Place

You were dead, I'm certain. I knew from the way we all looked away from your bed and into our phones. You sat up and grabbed both my...
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black and brown vintage camera

Haphazardly

It was always in cluttered antique shops that my wife and I could get our fill of nostalgia: where a 100-year-old typewriter may sit atop a 1950s television...
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silver and white round analog clock

Sass

I admire the fit of the monkey into the alarm & the women who drive their obscene sofa trucks from mailbox to church ... well, this...
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Goosebumps

We had goose bumps on our chocolate skin because we weren't well dressed for the weather We didn't think about clothes when we fled motherland on aluminum...
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I sit on the balcony like a droopy shirt and hope that I get assassinated the green SUVS and white mini vans pass by with no understanding of my...
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and said "Maximalist" as if it explained everything. I gave her muffins with cranberries, pine nuts, rooibos tea and dark chocolate. I warned her to duck so she wouldn't hit...
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grayscale photography of man standing front of mirror

Reflections

I’m not crazy anymore trying to see myself like you see me. My reflection bouncing off the mirror is no longer the me who used to bounce off of reality. Still, I think you must be meshuga for wanting to...
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...the long wave swells and rolls towards my shore sound is sucked from air till only the subterranean roar of a distant heart is felt and breath is...
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Graves in the Sky

I know where all the graves lie; those of my father, mother, close friends, acquaintances, some uncles, some aunts. My parents' I visit often, the relatives' as often as...
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selective focus photography of tape measure

relativity theory

if you were only as thin as one atom one wide one tall one deep you can bet your atomic arse electrons would still think you're fat​
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the house grows smaller with each step I take walls pinching in a carnival room your chair in its corner worn like a molar a trick you still do blowing smoke...
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Saved By The Spell

A flock of Dunlins startle rushing to rise on a Merlin rumor. Murmuring among themselves when to shrink or swell to foil an intrusion. Summer speckled plumage strobing like northern lights on...
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Your Turn

I let the date whisper through me like slow bullets each year I refuse to count will not say it’s been howevermany years now for time does not...
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HEYYYYYYYYYYY STUPID HEYYYYYYYYYYY STUPID the windshield wipers chant as I battle the midnight rain for a pack of Lucky Strikes.
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"Everything's a metaphor," he said, deadheading the rosebush, thick gloves protecting him from its spite. "Is it?" I asked, "Even us? Are we just a metaphor?" And though he...
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school of fish in fishbowl

Joelle

They had deep dark secret day at school one time only. I don’t think they were prepared for the results that decimated the entire town, so...
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Winding towards Josselin through woods green as absinthe, sharp as a lime slice, I drop the roof and speed carries the smatter of rain over the car and away. Along the ditches pollarded...
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the air from the vent suddenly shuts off and now my thoughts are so clear I actually have to deal with them
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blue and white ocean wave

rogue

like a 20-foot rogue wave wall appearing suddenly out of a placid, gray-teal ocean giving no time for fear to be digested, nor for comprehension to do its part, heaving...
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We are under a spell today the rules of gravity suspended birds float through the fog It is my eldest daughter’s birthday and this is an all-day...
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towel on faucet near dish rack

Tanka for Zayda

my kitchen again -- the flash of sunlight on the counter was you and has me talking to the sky
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black and white digital heart beat monitor at 97 display

Losing Modality

Machines under alarm a squeeze from a warm hand. A whisper—please don’t die. I tried to reply but got confused in all the commotion never noticing the shocks from cold white...
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brown cardboard box with white and red round medication pills

Antediluvian

In Midnight's hour I take my tongue and place it on the floor. (It loves to run about and play with Beetle, Dung, and Spore.) Then Teeth and...
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When distant wishes calling you in breezes rushing off the bay, return, as blush of deja vu, of distant whisper calling you to kisses spent at twenty two which...
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black wooden framed glass window

6:11 a.m.

I slept in a small room I dreamed there as a boy the moon came & went wind knocked on my windows sometimes in the grass in the fields...
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(Warning: Adult Content) I was just writing this poem where I was going on and on and on when really I just want to fuck it’s spring I’m frustrated and I’m not attracted to...
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aerial view of green trees near body of water during daytime

Detroit River

The annoying drone a mile over the hill, I-35 tinnitus. It helps to pretend it’s a waterfall or rapids or squalling river valley winds. At night its white noise puts me to...
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I coaxed you into my life like a wild animal and loved you too hard. Like when the fox said to the Little Prince, To you I...
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He conforms his tired bones to the shape of a bed, crosses his arms, lets eyes go to grey- spinning the world a needle grabs dust on a vinyl LP, no lyrics, no...
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When you get off the boat your perception changes You watch things more closely Like my beloved old tree dying I never imagined it would become dangerous There was...
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Lost at Sea Alzheimer’s Pantoum I first noticed when we sailed as we often did from Robinhood Cove to Bath. A thick fog swaddled the boat, mist...
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The distance between us is a giant red star. The irregular shapes of particulate matter- drifting away. Your eyes looking elsewhere.
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he's out there now row 2 forcing tines into the rain-packed crust beating greedy roots against the fork shaking loose clumps of soil and stone salting the earth with...
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cardboard box lot

Bubble Wrap

Another packing up dream and we're getting good at this. The embroidered table runner goes beneath the bundled purple china cow. As we add linens to cushion around it,...
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man in black and white checkered dress shirt wearing white cowboy hat

10-Gallon Hat

I got a 10-gallon hat But my head’s so fat I can only put it on 1 gallon at a time
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old ghosts

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