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Edward Ogle the Second

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doomsday kittens

Hearing the Usual Reports

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In its own defense against what is too concrete the mind allows a magical thought--

The Knife Edge

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Max understood this perfectly and could easily picture the slow-motion buckling of the spars and the accordion collapse of the fuselage as the propeller blades’ churned up the ground.

Afton Mountain

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fog settles over the mountain laying a ghostly blue shroud

Upon a Time

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then all crawl out from the wreckage to begin a dance lasts all night so by morning we'll be tired surprised we're still upright

7th Avenue Local

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The harsh lights of the 7th Ave. Local revealed dark circles that had remained hidden during Vivian’s performance.

Butterfly Morning

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We woke up and we were whirlpools of spilt turquoise oil / with wings for flying

The Angel with The Broken Wing

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"She was like a perimeter guard for an advanced race of beings who looked human but were somehow para-human entities focused only temporarily within this dimension."

The Gift

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and oh how serratedly so

A Haiku In Spirit But Not In Form On the Fine Art of Sumo

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Two titans move opposite one another

A Good Provider

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She looked over from the passenger seat at her husband and smiled. It had been twenty years. She hadn't expected him to remember. She leaned over and kissed him on the cheek, placed her hand on his thigh.“We'll be home soon enough,” he said. He was not…

Tons

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Drink tons of water they keep telling me...

Broadloom

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I have constructed this emotion with tinfoil and stilts. I wear the mask of a typewriter. I have roots in Minnesota. I have a glass hat and a junkyard monstrosity pregnant with parables.

Untitled

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the colors of the night

Florida Dreams of Peru

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Kiln dried mummies, landscape of once were alpacas. / Now all the wool is farmed in Alva

Who Was This Guy

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Luke and Diane sat at a round white table looking around the room. There were clusters of people forming an archipelago of cordial exchange and small talk. All but a few were strangers, friends and family of his sister-in-law Mary, now a widow, though the word sounded…

If the Shoe Fits

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I didn’t say to eat your keys and parrots. It was peas and carrots. Idiot!

Giving Birth to the World

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Life's a contradiction.

Portrait of a Dead Princess

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Extrapolate, interpolate/ to add imaginary flesh// to fragmentary bones.

The Immunodeficiency Of Our Collective Hearts

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a set of 4 poems

Wolf - Variation 5

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his eyes see blood as circumstance.

Dissecting

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skin is soft and too easily sliced away

Masquerade III

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. . . he's of mixed race. Along with European blood, he's got Mexican Indian and African blood. Here's the irony. He don't look nothing like a white European man but he thinks like one.

Brucey

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I kept my seat. Passengers packed in the aisle weren't moving and until they were, neither was I.

He's All Man--And He's All Mine

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My man’s got a habit that’s kinda strange. I’ve got a feeling he’s never gonna change. Whenever I take a trip, when I git back, my underwear’s ripped.

LEAVES

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...black birds fall from trees...

Female Scent-Marking in the Suburbs

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We watched through the plate glass window, like kids watching a mother guppy eat her young. A woman approached the sweaters but stopped suddently, as if she sensed the dark force Darth Vader projects in Star Wars movies.

jewels

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it is said to make your manliness last forever

After Appomattox

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The renegade states- Virginia, Georgia,/ Texas, and the rest- should have lost their names

Of the FTC and the Human Condition

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Humanity comes without a choice