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SYCAMORE STREET MORNING

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"S- E- X -- ever heard of it?"

After: An All American, Post 9-11 Love Poem

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After he got on one knee, and she said, I do. After they watched the televised bombs disappear the city. After everyone fell asleep. After shock and awe, him and her making love…

The Pigeon Savior

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The window washer started saving pigeons whose feet were wrapped in fine black thread, the result, he informed me, of picking through trash bins. They are very intelligent, he went on to explain. (Right, trash bins, I thought to myself.) People tend to av

Clatter

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The stick had a head and a face and a swirling robe, all etched in wood. It was the 14th Dalai Lama.

Lawn

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white-gray mounds persist

Imported Beers of the Romantic Poets

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She burps in beauty, like a frog Who sits on lily pad so green, Resounding nightly in his bog But to my eyes unseen.

DNA

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my family's Scottish heritage

Christmas Email from an Aging Wicked Stepmother

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Your stepsisters send their love. All three are still on the wagon.

Tides

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Tides

Txt msging

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Forty years later he was still her Romeo, she his Juliet.

Balm (excerpt)

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my second language / to silence / plainsong of / the breast

A Desperate Tweak

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I have two of those hand exercisers jamming the tray and keeping it locked in place

Chasing the “Z” words

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It ain't the steak, it's the sizzle.

$5 K a Day

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We are all in big trouble. Here's some fiction to let your soul experience the beast.

Nope - song

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The tax man he is coming But I got me no dough Been looking for some new job That’s going really slow I bought a lottery ticket But dropped it down the well I went to see the psychic She said I’d go to hell Can’t cope, I just can’t cope

The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 3

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That put a real crimp in our already crimped sex life. Actually I didn’t mind as much as Allison minded. It made her real grumpy when she didn’t get laid. I could never understand how she could bear so much pain, because she was so small that it was l

Canyon In The Clouds

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It was two days to town. His horse could only go one.

A Skeptic’s Faith in Four Parts

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The universe will fuck you over in the end./ That’s what it does, what it’s good at—

Penny Candy

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Thank you for the flip book with the woman dancing, bird wing elbows, knees this way and that.

Mortality

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The list of things to live for/ shortens with age. The list of regrets/ lengthens.

Ballad of a Traffic Light

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I am a buttress against chaos. And now I am turning yellow.

Five Breaths Or Less

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She flew through the air, linen skirt billowing around her. Below, her buckled bicycle was taking a different route. Less aerodynamic than she, its trajectory was brief, crashing into the ditch. Elspeth kept on flying. Time slowed, and expanded

Exchange Student

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Sometimes he could feel so small he believed he could fit through the eye of a needle.

Her

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It's time, more than anything

Ink Play

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Lying on a high seat in the south study, this is what I see:

Firefly

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Smiling at stones and chunks of earth pounding in...

White Room Trials

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November 24th-- Subject began to chew the flesh of his forearms. Researchers considered interfering but decided against it because subject was only bleeding slightly.

Lyz & Duncan

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This morning, my band mates discussed their relationship deal breakers.

White Room

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A white room is empty but for you, a card table and a chair.

Nine Elephants and an Ass

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Nine sated elephants and an ass sit around a decimated Thanksgiving table discussing the state of the union over the hacked to bits carcass of a twenty-three pound turkey. Two years in to The Great Communicator's Lame Duck term and the nine elephants, whose…