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Bitter Tide

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I loved without marriage and the men loved without divorce and we loved a twenty-four-year-old eating and how gracious she shone over a tame bottle of beer.

Late Autumn

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Rough sonnet about faded love

Social Aid & Pleasure novel scrap

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the heat and energy it takes

How the Body Prepares Itself

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it corrupts the smells// and flavors of the world/ and plants its swollen face

Mall Flower

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I’ve blown out my shag haircut and it’s big. BIG-big.

Drought

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Where we live, at the edge of the foothills at the east edge of town, fire is always a worry during the summer, and this has been an exceptionally dry year.

Quail

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I can’t take my eyes off a tall blonde with green eyes. I catch her eye.

Which Way to the Vomitorium

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When I saw that Chez Panisse was serving crawdaddies (the menu called them crayfish, but I know a crawdaddy when I see it), I relaxed. I didn't eat the ugly creatures when my brother fished them out of irrigation ditches back on our farm near Roswell, and

It's a Boy!

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Sex when you’re pregnant Is like sex when you aren’t Pregnant, but with extra people.

The Home

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They take her cookies they take her Coke they take her Kleenex the whole box not the used ones They take, they steal everything They’d take the brain out of an ox if they could Diamonds they steal bars of soap as long as they

Shimmer

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She grinned when he steadied himself against the sofa. “Boy, I know you.”

Visiting Sally

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Buddy was in a garage band. They were pretty good. “Soul Harbor“ they called themselves.

Hart Crane Pantoum No. 1

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One must be drenched in words.

Summer recipes

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Instead of julienning the fava beans you could, instead, slip your linen shirt off your pink shoulders and hang it on a tree branch like a white flag yelling “I don’t want to fight anymore, goddamit, this aftenoon is beautiful.”

A Small Life in Slices

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It’s Sunday- no need to shave-/ but shave, I do. A little act// of discipline in the discipline/ of routine.

White Woman

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She had a compulsion to organize things according to their size or colour or according to some other abstruse algorithm that clicked through her mind. She didn't know that this was OCD

leave the dog, take the cannoli

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he who laughs last is probably a dumbass fuck

Beautiful Girls

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and all the beautiful girls are in the river And they went in dirty But they came out clean

Frostproof Suite: Clown Car

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My job was take the falls, act the dope, finish at the wrong end of the slap stick for the blow off. I was Auguste, the fool; I drove the clown car.

But It's Been a While

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When I first met Luther he was sitting on the sidewalk, his back pushed up against a vacant storefront wall, thumbing through the “help wanted” section of a few-days-old copy of our local paper and I was moved to offer him a couple of dollars for which he said,…

Like Water

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I become a lake, a river, a stream, an ocean that will one day be able to move anything, anyone.

Begettings

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However did we make it this far/ without murdering one another as the other sleeps

Taking a Bath with my iNuke

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Mickey Mouse mini-nukes are often placed in children's school lunch boxes for cooling sandwiches, though an accidental meltdown could cause the food to become dangerously hot in both senses of the term.

Removals

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Her mother was worried.

Iowa Voters

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I miss my fire from the first three races

Teleprompts

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In what appears to have been a coordinated, coast-to-coast attack, country clubs across America were attacked last night with firebombs and heavy contaminations of herbicides.

I Scream

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she peeled back the white wrapper from around her ice cream sandwich slowly, methodically

Louis Belfast

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"You know, there really is a death of the heart."

Wind Drinks Time Like Wine

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but let's stop and take another look at things could it be through our closed eyes that we didn't really know what we were talking about that there never was a surprise

Year End Closeout

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At some point, indifference// will swallow the small gasps./ The appalling will become the norm.