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I Thought

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I thought we ended things a long time ago

Don't You Feel Like Crying?

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The sky was dressed in a wedding gown. The hooves of my horse clicked like consonants on the stone of the butte.

Identity

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We’re forty-three.

The Figured Surface

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Number the herd. Number/ the baskets after harvest./ Note the reappearance of the moon/ after its short absence.

the trenchant lad & the mechanical men

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A man walks on the moon my mother knew at Purdue.

Poetry Hour at the Regional House of Pancakes

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The waitress appears and Fred gives her a big smile and th3 once over. It's no wonder he's had so many women in his life while I've . . . uh . . . read a lot of books.

Edward Ogle the Fifth

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Roaming beetles knitting needles chopstick counter attack.

Traffic, I'm in no rush.

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Traffic, no need to be in a hurry.

A Few Images Illuminating the Difficulty of Being a Young, Talentless Writer in Manila

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A ten-ton bus with ill-manners going slow

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ambiguity of lightning

The Duck Economy

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It's early spring and rains leave miniature ponds not deep but attractive to a Drake and Mallard pair moving into the neighborhood settling quacking down. Not sensing transience in their comfortable puddle they get on swimmingly bottom…

The Oxymoronic Life of a Nearly Dead Woman

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I could have a minor stroke.

Closed Letter to Management

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don’t ask me to set my goals./ I have none except safe air to breathe,/ a reliable roof,/ something aromatic in the oven.

Deep Pond

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It wasn't the sun sparkling Or the dog of the neighbor Barking.

Dead Bird Uncovered by Spring

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Left by a melting snowbank: Cup lids, pine needles, a cairn of dog shit, And the grey soggy shape Of an eyeless winter bird. His breast is an old accordion Gone to rot in an old…

Weeknights, Idling, Candlelight

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I find that I am keeping silent more often. I don't like repeating myself.

Coconut Milk

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"The baby's head..it was so big. There were complications...I saw it all. They tried to get me out of the room but I saw it all. He split her apart like a coconut Norm! She was gone like that."

Fugue No. 3

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The falcon cannot hear the falconer. The rain comes down in sheets.

We the Wild Men

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There's a whole pack of us, men minted from hot brass and thumbtacks. Too tough for sensibility's sake.

Match

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Like the Lady Miss Kier, I believe in the power of love. I believe.

The Magic of the Old Man

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As far as I knew it was just an old man and his wife who lived in this house, but not really. I mean if you had seen what every person on that block had, you would have realized that many lived there, well many beings.

SEIZE

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“You're right by the mall, the cultural district, and just a few minutes from downtown,” the realtor smiled. “And it's on a bus line?” the wife asked. “Yes it…

Ben Clarone: Prologue Part 3

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The urban-abused Chevy looked older than its seven years.

Tutorial Frustration

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Incorrigible swine,

I Kissed a Shirelle

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What do you do when a Shirelle asks you if you’re in the mood to dance?

For the Record

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As being ebbs it deepens. The mind grows truant. We inhabit a permanent Saturday.

Now

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I'm looking for the perfect/passage, a safe, sound/jettison to now.

Church Construction (Leaps of Logic)

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Suddenly you've got something to do on Sundays - Wake up early and dress your best.

Miriam

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When daybreak comes, it falls a pall pást mé, For it descends too soon for woken sight to see A shade of any gladness in its dew's first blisters: All my dreams of daylight are in darkling whispers Of…

Layover

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The concourse had become his second home, he knew it that well. His fellow passengers were the houseguests he couldn't get rid of, the workers at the restaurants and gift shops a personal…