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I am exceeded / by a leaf
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1349116
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Jane knew what to do
when she heard murmurs in the ceiling,
knew what to do when she struck out on the moor.
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134922
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People questioned my motives when I became a smokejumper again. They said I had a death wish, or that somehow by going into battle against the big Pacific Northwest forest fires, I was still trying to put out the flames of the burning car in which my sons Jake (age…
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134921
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“Apollo twenty-two. Come in.”, the voice crackled through the speakers of the aircraft. There was only silence broken by a solitary meow and the slight whistle of oxygenated air through the ventilation system. “Captain Snuggles, now that you…
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134964
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In a field of barley, I see you, ...
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134920
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I can’t deny you’re beautiful, though it’s unsure how many of your defects are fudged by my myopia.
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134900
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Holding a bouquet of flowers wrapped in a tissue in one hand, a round shape that balances the round yellow burst of light that is her dress. While the flesh of her chest bulges forward and she balances as though in a holding pattern in flight.
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134900
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I was watching the bustling crowd below, sipping on a teacup full of Victory Gin when the scream, no a howl, cut through the murmuring of footsteps and telescreens.
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134954
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Uzma dashes up the stairs ahead of me . . .
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134932
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He painted a woman on them, identical to the woman that kneeled by his bed.
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134932
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I didn't feel when you cut out my spine I'd been throwing up all night couldn't even smell the rust …
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134954
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A poem not about fog written in fog with an erasable pen.
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13481011
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I fall in love with a second cousin at the picnic. I make sure I sit next to her.
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134832
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[VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.]
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134810
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Smiling, holding hands, Joe and Lara basked in the sunshine of the mid January day as they approached the diner. The temperature was warm enough for golf. Joe had played in far colder weather in spring and fall.
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1348146
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So many dreams I need to visit, though
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134864
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The heart would have unnatural reverence, exalted, bursting with evil, rolling in sloth, if it did not at once reveal its innocence. I saw you again, on the morning of the sun. It was you, or your double, or a son you might have had. Your beautiful bloo
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134800
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This was the anniversary of the chairs. He would celebrate tonight for the chairs, and the chairs would welcome him.
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134832
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We were talking in the dark in my room. He lay on a mattress on the floor. He came for a sleepover.
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134895
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I never meant to shipwreck you,
I didn't even know I was singing out loud.
I just stood on my rock a little too boldly,
and hummed a tune you wanted to hear.
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134893
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When I first started this, a few months ago, I was timid about looking people in the eye.
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134842
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i saw a sign and it read A PERSON THAT IS MEAN TO THE WAITER IS A MEAN PERSON i thought of you with your high cheekbones, the sense of entitlement unparalleled, the superiority complex that hid much you had a gig and it had probably…
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134841
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134821
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But behind the shops (and the many pubs), at the back of the narrow cottage fronts which line the wynds are secret courtyards, surprising gardens and more light than ever imagined.
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134851
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you'd do him more of a favor to kill him, than place upon him the burden of such an abrupt change in travel plans.
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134852
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If there was another way to describe emptiness, I'd word the endlessness of the sky, of the ocean at low tide.
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134800
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“Okay,” I say, “but my point is the only way you’d ever know if someone really loved you is if they put their life on the line when it counts. Otherwise you gotta take their word for it.”
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134853
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At times we rarely desire to be where we are at home quite as much as we desire to be where we are no longer.
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