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August and After Haiku

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The brown grackle chirps/ as she chomps a plump cricket-/ melodious meal.

summer fields

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we ran that afternoon/across Bayshore lanes/into green blooming fields, beyond all those

~she dance~

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the lightning horse you never mounted in your inherited dream~wetter than the oceans you never traversed~will you ever ride pure abandon?

Into The Night

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Under a conspiratorial moon… the shovel my silent partner… organ-less torso to the worms.

au

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the way we fit...alchemy

Assiduity Seven

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Uzma dashes up the stairs ahead of me . . .

I am going to shoot you, but first, an Essay

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Quickly enough, it became clear, however, that this was really all about offers you could not refuse, allegations you could not contest, arrests you could not understand and acts you would not survive.

The Money Tree

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Tree full of dimes and dollars

Fixing Fence

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The sun is coming up and the work day has already begun.

There Was a G.I. - January 1970

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was beaten in the back of the brig.

Losses

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Each day, I lose more words-/ nouns and verbs- but especially// proper names. People and places

Abuse and Hyperbole

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I beat that dog with an open hand, clenching him between my thighs.

Broken Night

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Could I really seduce and rob a total stranger -- just on a dare?

missing item #7

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in her bedroom, opening night of his solo show she is snapping her nylons to center the seam stretching from her toes to where the line disappears into the hem of her dress.

In search of reification

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For want of a word...

404

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What? Hey, man WTF???

Mauthausen

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I was feeling a bit introspective. I was busy in my own mind assembling the history of the place and getting ready for the visit. I was naturally not someone who would cluster up with a bunch of people I had just met and had arrived to participate in this

The Virtues of the Patient Lizard

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He will feast and die beneath the glaring gaze of the western sky, waiting patiently for what will come next

The Mutes

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Some people are born that way, and some people do things to themselves that keep them from talking. Like opening up a soda bottle with your mouth.

Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.7 - c.1

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The Circle of Four looked at the little girl’s back, and they could almost see the wings, but it could never take shape because of her heart.

Global Arms - 2

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While serving in government, she plotted to change it.

The Shaker

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A man and a woman argued over the size of the quake. They were sitting on the floor like Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Conspiracy

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I was convinced that enemy bombers were on the way.

Olfactory

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Life to her had come to resemble one of those mazes you find in a puzzle book, inscrutable except by those with exceptional IQs. Mary would run her pencil down one path in search of the passage that might penetrate to the exit, then another, but the paths

Living In My RV - song

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I’m just living in my RV Guess my parking karma won Got some pigeons for my pets Cause I’m sorta on the run I’m just living in my RV And I’m not the only one But I’m getting kinda bummed Cause I miss my little hon Tried to kick my gambl

Future Children As Rocks

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I feel like I should tell you things about strength.

Lockdown

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That son of a bitch locked me in the house again. Come over and knock in a window. One of them by the roses; he won’t see. Be a dear.

long goodbye

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where are you today?/ where you are is the one thing/ i love & cannot know

October Day Salute

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The duty of a student can be summed up in a sentence To benefit the race of man with thoughtful independence

Love

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I said: “Doesn’t he understand? People like me, geniuses—great, mad geniuses—are prone to failures because we do not accept the common notions of society? Doesn’t he understand? I’m not like the others.”