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Off The Cuff

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Sometimes words are carved in stone, but you won't find these in this poem

Meeting A Praying Mantis

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A Praying Mantis clover to bright emerald green landed on my sleeve and lingered as I worked in my hay field.

Ron Vara speaks out at last.

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He’s an empty sock

Living In A Novel

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I walked into a novel and sat down on a rock. The language was distressed and full of cyclones and swells. I could smell embalming fluid and folklore. Everywhere I went there were doorknobs, escalators, and clocks. Objects of all genre overflowing with prose. I stood at …

Unconditional Unbroken

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It's house has seen every day and every night From its windows stars are born and die

pome sequence from an early spring

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Say say say say say say says our I-I-I-me tunes:

Second Wave, 1944 (with notes)

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Here were men trying their best to kill other men....

Poof

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Yesterday's protest...

Mrs. Penfield

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Now her right breast was annoying her.

Interview with a Jesus Lizard

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Interviewer: So, you walk on water, right? How is that possible? Jesus Lizard: Well, I only run on water, and upright on my hind legs. Haha, if I tried just walking on water I’d sink quicker than St. Peter!

The Roses

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Does it ever happen to you to wish to talk to somebody? Just somebody. Anyone. A stranger you might meet. Just to talk. About anything, even of the rain. Of the sore you have on your foot, of the daffodil in bloom, of everything and nothing. This lady sat at my…

the sensual tactility of tall buildings

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There's a nice line in M. Tafuri's essay “Architecture and Cities in the United States 1870-1910” concerning the relationship between land values and building costs:“… whereas the simple parceling-up of surface lots is the product of an elementary…

Barred caller

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overheard

Started by a Sudden Change

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Erma's last task, as it happened...

Black and White

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Chris and I have an understanding. We've been playing cops and robbers all morning, running around and stirring up shit.

A Regime With No King

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Blank space / governs the minds of small children

Bowling With Diane Keaton

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Friday night, 80s halcyon,a memory of October bowling.The suburban lanes loudwith kids and kinetic releaseof balls slamming on maple.I have no footwork, no senseof release, fingers sweatyin the grips, resin droppingwith a hollow boomfollowed by derision from more adept…

The start of Something

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All through the darkness, we carry the light. It goes where we go and cannot be extinguished. If we disappear, it still sits watch in a window, bearing witness to our lonely sacrifice, shining into the eyes that see. That is the history of all…