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Loveless Lover

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Love me like a crutch Love me when I'm strong

Vesper

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. . . how a body calls in the dark. . .

Before I Die

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...to know they are not alone

The Planetary Phosphorescent Horses

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sprang straight up to their full galloping heights roaming over your hills like constantly shifting eyes, your strange approximated illuminating hair like ghosts giving birth to a tender smell of green sea foam. This was all I saw, but it was quite…

Linear A

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let’s press our words into the clay/ in language so completely dead/ we have to re-imagine it.

The Fact of the Matter

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Jeanne and I were married for eight years. I never knew her.

Strange

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Words are looking ever so strange today like a hole in space a wind in a cloud a face superimposed over a mountain

Assiduity Seven

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Uzma dashes up the stairs ahead of me . . .

The Torture Never Stops

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Who is the torturer and who is the tortured?

Condensation on the Glass

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Condensation on the Glass Riding down 22, I'm looking out the window. Time is a whirlwind. Your memory relinquishes itself, yellowed and fraying at the edges. It's raining and cold. I make a smiley face in the condensation …

Paris Love Songs: Nos. 5 & 6

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Aucune idée

Open Wounds

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Where the skin had grazed, shredded by the coarse gravel to form scabs, fascinated Jack. It reminded him of his youth and his own grazes, scratches and stitches. As a boy he imagined scabs were rough foundations of igneous rock, blood like lava pouring th

Inventorying

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Me sad because of results set forth in my life story.

Deadly duel: Blow v. Teach

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At last, we learn if Blow has the cojones to fight.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 48

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Ben was not a happy musician.

Brothers

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The young boy woke to the sound of laughter. He blinked himself out of deep sleep and allowed…

This Time

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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.

Eve in the House of Mirrors: 13 fragments

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1. On the morning of her eighteenth birthday, Eve woke to find herself transformed into a gigantic chess piece made of zeros and ones.2. Eve gazed so long at her smartphone that she found herself falling into it.3. She fell for a time that may have been short or long or…

The Ice Scraper Symphony

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Highway 17 South

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did I read that right?

Session

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Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.

Assiduity Twenty

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I experience a presence when walking through the forest . . .

To See Who's There

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Able to search through centuries, I click, scribble, skim,resurrect wet stone walls, the smell of burning peat.Bob's your uncle; Peggy's your aunt.Name your family, child. My brother said helloto Uncle Shirley and Aunt Greg. I was more…

Ben Clarone: Prologue Part 2

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This was not the bar that the artist usually frequented.

Downtown Milwaukee

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Downtown Milwaukee My feet are exposed, never been out in public even out here— …

Life at the Brew-Ha-Ha Pub

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No matter what you may discover Or come to believe during the drinking life The question still remains: What if everyone was an accident? But still, while time may appear To be nearing its own end And the sun seems to be getting

Santa

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Santa’s ruddy snoze/

Everything that's Gone Wrong, has Gone Wrong Because of Football

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I’m not ready for football. I’m not ready for it, but I live in a southern town that worships at its altar more devoutly than those suicidal beauties in James Wright’s great poem.

Version - 2.0

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Pale like a tracing of a memory

Exhale

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It's as if the house knew I was relinquishing my hold on it.