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Gray Lizard

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He can’t enlarge the rock—/ can only find its safest distance

First Things Go First And End Up Being Last (the Big Enough Picture)

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I don't have to show you how to fly. I don't even know who you are still possibly trying to be in this crazy grounded world. But the words make us family. I can't help that or what you might do with that public tweet tweet…

Convalescent

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that was one ending

The City

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“A story shines brighter through a tear in your eye,” You say

Land Fill at Morning

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The gulls/ have somehow mastered the art// of avoiding the nooses of six-pack/ plastic rings

Shouting the Muse Down

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In the tumbled-down now there's too much material, culled from pretty boys that don't notice me and tattooed ones that do, and I'm certain there's at least one dreamer soaking eyes into me who knows all the twisted lyrics invoking pretty little horses.

four haiku

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years later ghosts enter. . . .

Pantheon

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gods aren’t going to help you son

Departures

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Fingers scrabble idly at pocket seams, forage between teeth, grasp for tepid cups, patter a drumbeat on knees.

A Rave for "How the Sixties Ended"

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"At a bare minimum it deserves to be a major cult hit."

Last Stop To Dream

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This time is different. The dream doesn’t continue with endless walking.

Travel

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I texted a wickety-split, tax-declaring New York-based international escort, a moonlighting, all-pro Kit, whose day job on Wall Street yields no bonus.

the marriage of heaven and hell & their cat

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It is hard

Our Date Was Better In Reverse

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I felt my words reach out and try to grab him by the heart. They missed.

Elevator Music

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Of course, no one can control what goes on in an elevator.

Always nervous

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and still every time I walked up there - so it can't be the cycling - I was nervous I would do it wrong

Oh Captain, Good Captain: Part I

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I once knew a sailor...

Call Me

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The woman took a small note card from her purse and wrote on it. She then stood, handed the card to the doctor, and said, “Call me.”

The Cheerleader

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He sat behind her in Honors English, each day studying everything about her.......

Alive

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Imagine this: One day you are walking down the street (wearing your protective mask, of course, the cloth one you bought the other day because you liked the color and design) when, by chance, you happen upon a strange sight.

Skunks

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I tell people that we leave out food for the creatures to appease the skunk gods.

Beggars Banquet

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When I was a boy and just out of seminary school, I went to a Doors concert and heard Jim Morrison sing his song ‘Soft Parade’ – it changed my life.

Millard Fillmore, Dolphin Flayer

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Last week I heard that there is a new horror movie out about Abe Lincoln, with the plot of the film involving the tallest of presidents hunting down vampire bats with his axe while suspending habeas corpus, writing lame speeches about the freedom of man, restoring the…

A Noir Celebration

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A kind of sucking darkness into A kind of noir celebration of despair

Smack

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They shoot up through the soles of their feet once the veins in their arms are all used up. They shoot up in their necks like the cows on the African Savannah

Of the Terrible Angels and Their Fleshy Conduits

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Other pathways are more satisfactory. They are more closely attuned to music of the other world. Even so, the heat eventually burns them up.

Flurry

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If I had slept a little longer, I/ would not have seen this rarity at all.

Crossing Over

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Joan's biospy showed the cancer had come back. Instead of preparing herself for chemo, she booked us plane tickets to the Galapagos. “Death can wait another ten days,” she said.

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there was the place where the large turtles had their eggs, and it was always a concern because everyone wanted the new turtles to make it back to the sea but the electric lights of high wattage along with sounds from the roadways beyond were in one…

Mantis

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Sally knows the situation: if your name's on the list you can't come in. If they try to walk past her, swipe their card on the electronic barrier's scanner, instead of a short benevolent bleep and the gate sliding open, it will fail. The hapless individua