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Deus Ex Machina

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He rolls in unbidden across the stubble fields / Old acquaintance astride a newly booming cloud/ Under sky an alien shade of strawberries whipped/ Her watch stops ticking out the rest of her/ scheduled breathing poses

Snarket

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Shit, I guess I'm gonna hafta

C-ing History

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Conjure calamity and calamity comes.

The Exhaustion of Dreams

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I like it best when I wake up And the wild rain of dreaming ends.

Paris Love Songs: Nos. 5 & 6

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Aucune idée

A Bead Was Lost

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The Meeting

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When he leans back from the telescope through which he had been looking, he sports a derby and a Hercule Poirot moustache.

This Time

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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.

Forecast for Mid-December

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In the next week or two, the red oak/ will loose and lose its leaves

Downland Ballad I :Photo-disintegration

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Like a distant memory of past expectations I wander through past journeys, delineations chew on the fresh air like a discontented Wordsworth now free, free to roam where I will..

The Museum

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Flicking through the sheets on her clipboard, Evelyn double checked the address with the mismatched numbers on the letterbox. Its mouth was a rusty, gaping grin like it had lost its dentures.

Highway 17 South

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did I read that right?

zygomatics

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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…

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.

Veined and Green

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Where we’ve penned heart shaped question marks, seeds sprouting bowed heads, a congregation of confused supplicants.

One Kiss

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"It was one kiss. No tongue. What does that even mean?" Lindley tried to see Leah as any other patient, "What do you want it to mean?" "I don't know," Leah whined, tears welling, "something, maybe. You know I hate surprises." Her sister was not another…

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

Any migration is forced

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I’m not / going to change you I /promise

Homonyms

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Ascent/Assent Together the horizon/ Catechism of love

Downtown Milwaukee

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

driving

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gravel coughing up tires at 90 miles an hour and just getting under way

Unclassifieds 1

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*Must have excellent communication skills and be able to talk pretty good.

Lullaby

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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.

Her Man in the Navy Blues

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In that time when the trunk was getting cleared out and when it became only the empty shell of what had once been so important, many things hit the match. She burned an old black negligee, a picture competing with the likes of a Vargas girl and other thin

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…

Assiduity Twenty

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

I've Seen Way Too Often

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how the world is constantlyrevolving her mirroredorbs around the roomlooking for someone tohypnotize, a goddesshell-bent on catching agoon to mortal with; andas you lie from behindyourself so shall she lie withyou. Now, do you reallywant my answer to…

Rhapsody in the Rain

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so many bills to pay the list keeps shedding its skin like a snake

Assiduity Seven

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Uzma dashes up the stairs ahead of me . . .

Apex

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You left paint and blood smeared on the wall.