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A Still-Life, in Movement

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Below your beauty's crooked forms I arrange my table.In you my life is rooted.Of your will I dispense, until, clearer drawn To its own osmosis, a still-life slips.Diametric becomes motion,although I am not stillI do not move.Sun-drowned, I destined,in insurrection, bringan…

MUNDO MUERTE

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Meagan rides the subway with perfect lips and deep thoughts, looking moody out the smudged window like an actress in a Sofia Coppola film.

Necropolitan

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Ash

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Whenever my mother’s will-to-live wavered and her hand reached out for the electric fence, my ash would whisper, “Live, live.”

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pome sequence from an early spring

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Say say say say say say says our I-I-I-me tunes:

Fugitives of more than the whole Earth alone

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..maybe it was the fish I had for lunch

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The Privileged, The Righteous, The Bored

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I saw you, old man, in the desertof iron and copper and cold.No sorrow there to subvert,your eyes repulsed by the gold,examine the joy of an apple,ponder the despair of a peach.The words you wish to unravelare words beyond limits of speech.I can tell you hide a strong…

A Visceral Affair

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Her nervous toes danced under the table. She thought, on this dismal day in South West London, the time had come to confess her state of tangled affairs.

The Sweetheart of Wands

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I One only I desire, no freedom binds or blinds.Not an icebox mind of fire, more than a myth that is a myth, …

Public Transport

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Suicide was on his bucket list. Redeeming a lost soul was on hers. If not for the train drivers' strike they might have met.

On Freedom.

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Unbind the memory’s Filthy rags So she is free to wear Lipstick, fishnets, and fuck me shoes.

Humberto Figueroa Urquiza

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Humberto Figueroa Urquiza woke agitated and unsure why.

Touchstone: Excerpt 6.

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Some places she knew better than others; some battle sites were more notable or more recent, and always the memories came back on the flood.

Until there is nothing left but the smallest of hands

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Homecoming

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BOSTON didn't work out. Patrick had moved almost on a whim after graduation, but within a year he had lost his job and was out of savings. He had rent to pay and student loans, and soon his parents were saying, “Honey, you know you're always welcome…

Four.

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Fold in the edges. Careful. Creases marked and thumbnail pressed. Don’t look up. Fold in the edges. Concentrate.

The Bride was a Corpse

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6% of anorexics die of their disorder, most of sudden heart failure.

Blind Revolutions

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String, the matriarchal skiesover iron pastures,cyanide and honey. So silent stay the locusts,what mourning there callsto we who shy from sleep? Summer snow here hesitates,for a second still,not for any age. And still is alwaysstill, as the rain is,but the darkness ever…

Meeting A Praying Mantis

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A Praying Mantis clover to bright emerald green landed on my sleeve and lingered as I worked in my hay field.

The Mythology of Rooms

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Touchstone: Excerpt 4.

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His wealth showed best in her full figure.

The technological Judas delivers no kiss

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you are a necessary exercise in futility

Humphrey Bogart

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Friendship

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The routine was this: after getting off from the job at Carpet World in the Bear Run Shopping Center off of I-95, Stephen would wait for Dink to pick him up in his mother's honda. Then they would drive around for a while, usually on the less trafficked ro

Walpurgisnacht

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Μayday΄s evening, Sabbath of all witches : the moon, Earth΄s faithful sister, sends her light to illuminate the way as the great Grain Μother, Walpurga the Sky God΄s maiden lover transubstantiated now within the dolly as the Spirit of the Harvest animating…

Ilonka's Hagaddah

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So then we had to worry about the Russian soldiers. When they heard we were Jewish, they said “How come the Germans didn’t kill all of you?”

Spectrophotometer

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Mail

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he strides with noble purposefulness along the crazy paving