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The Paintings at Lascaux

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Essences of bull and bison,// stag and horse, illuminate/ the stony underground.

elms

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it's about dead trees

the true bliss of objects is entropy

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What the tumbler meant

Cheese

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When exactly does cheese go bad? it simply does not, I say.

WHAT WE REMEMBER MAY NOT REMEMBER US

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1. The clouds and the shadows of the clouds. The early light, like the night undressing herself revealing pink beneath, underneath the glory and the intimacy like early love made of arms only arms fingers and…

Whirl

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Wanna,wanna, whoop de loop. Hold my baby, kiss my mom, dance the way I used to do. Desktops, blacktops, cut and paste, speed down hills, learn the rules, Sister Saint Marion, married to Christ. Sixteen, life-green, pink tights, Swan Lake, an…

Portrait of a Dead Princess

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Extrapolate, interpolate/ to add imaginary flesh// to fragmentary bones.

Frankie & Jake are Married (another novel castaway)

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Frankie married me during my theory stage. I hadn’t known her long.

Boardroom Bullshit

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Push the envelope

Outfit

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Momma called them Vaughens, "a outfit," and said, "they shoulda throwed the book at that Darla Jean."

Rwanda Suite: Buzzed

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They'd taken so much: ivory, rubber, copper, gold. Wealth for the grabbing. No remorse.

Ghosts

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...ghosts still resentful, ghosts far from home...

laundry

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She’d once read the Time-Life Encyclopedia on The Universe and became obsessed with the woman from Alabama who was singled out, by a rock from a far place, in her sleep.

Metro Retrofitting

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Fax me back to South Street listening to the dumpster / trumpeter, standing like licorice in the rain, / as the fetid officers assemble for the raid

Span

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That’s a long time/ to live with the certainty/ of your death

1999, What I Wanted

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Breasts don't make you a woman, but no one told me that.

Wandering Eye

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“If they look that good in shorts.” I warned him once, in a candid, humorous moment, “Then they’re probably too young for you to look at.”

Creator

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What purpose other than misery/ can cancer serve? And Parkinson's,/ AIDS, and STDs?

The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures of Kaku-an

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a snowflake won’t settle on a smoking furnace; the fathers were never restless, it was always the earth that moved.

Wilma

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Every morning, Wilma's husband Richard would cross the street and visit with a neighbor, always after the neighbor's husband left for work. Wilma was a loner, never bothered with neighbors. She enjoyed sitting on her patio in her lounge chair,…

Pitspits

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a perpetrated fraud

Light

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"You gonna be old before you're old," my father had told her.

1994, What I Wanted

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Xanax, A hand gun, And the courage to pull the trigger

Year of the Microbes

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Gathering

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In the office supply store on Union, Jeremy, the stock boy, shelves tubs of rubber bands. Tubs with an easy-access pop-top and a see-through container. If Hendy saw these tubs, she would think these particular rubber bands resembled anorexic gummy-worms,

dozen haiku more

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tonight's sky is full:/each lunatic to his moon/sings separate songs.

Understudy

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All young and loud and big and I swear her face like a lighthouse lamp, glowing—I remember thinking, ‘She’s drunk at nine in the morning.’

Assiduity Twenty Two

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Warning: reader beware, there's sex in the air.

The She-Wolf of Leningrad

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The heavyset blind woman came into the art opening without a dog or a cane.

Quinine Tablets

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a little bitter for the better