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" You were so beautiful as a song. You are so ugly as a god."--Leonard Cohento my heart. I'm sorry. I must have left it in the garden. Will this do? Listen to the little soft bluebells trying so hard to be purple. They've seen what it means to be encircled by…

Zombie Strippers

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The Partial Population of a Very Small Town

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The Blue Bird

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The blue bird tapped at my window and pecked my crumbs. I talked to him as to a small person about the things of life, of flowers, of trees and the sky. Even at times pretending he was erudite, I questioned him about evolution and extinction. He looked at me as if he…

The Case of the Phantom Paperclip

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I was sitting on the steps in the entryway to our apartment building taking off my running shoes when I spotted a paperclip on the floor. I assumed it had fallen from the mail that my wife had just taken from our mailbox. Once my shoes were removed, I went down to pick…

Head in the Clouds

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Damn, the light turned green on me. Wasn't ready.

At Waffle House

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Staring at my $10 All Star Breakfast with extra bacon

Ron Vara speaks out at last.

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He’s an empty sock

Poof

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Yesterday's protest...

Let it Rage Until

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Let it rage. I shall not suppress you. Let your rage speak to you of the sorrow it hides, until your sadness swallows you whole.

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.

pome sequence from an early spring

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

The Toy Store

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Figures are a strip tease.

Six or Eight Legs

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I killed it. Didn't even relocate it back to its outdoor home, as I had work to do. This is being human.

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.

The Secondhand Life of Uncle Ray

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Between chapters, he trained my dog, Buster. He taught him to fetch bottle caps, roll over for no reason, and to play dead whenever someone raised their voice

desire

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Desire, nervousness and your power, in even your slightest look, I find it so addicting, harboring transformative impossibilities.Is this, I wonder, all that can really happen — wishing, dreaming? Consuming, I can't leave or lose it, not knowing, can't stop thinking…

Off The Cuff

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Sometimes words are carved in stone, but you won't find these in this poem

Hotel Venice and the Bohemian Blue

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“Time to check out,” I tell myself, looking at sailboats and surfers from the open window of my hotel room. I inhale minty incense and gaze down on a dark-skinned woman in a sombrero beneath towering palm trees. Laid out before her on a folding table ar

thing

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The Maze

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The man with the truncheon emerged at the monorail car's forward connecting doorway. One moment the space was vacant, a faux metal canvas for the dazzling sunlight streaming through a grime-encrusted window. When next Theseus Harrow looked up from his seat the dark-suited…

Unconditional Unbroken

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It's house has seen every day and every night From its windows stars are born and die

Living In A Novel

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I walked into a novel and sat down on a rock. The language was distressed and full of cyclones and swells. I could smell embalming fluid and folklore. Everywhere I went there were doorknobs, escalators, and clocks. Objects of all genre overflowing with prose. I stood at …

The Experience

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I decided this time I’m going right to the end.

Repetitions

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The couple sit at an outside table at McDonalds.

I Said God Damn

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the space between two antelopes is a canyon,

Second Wave, 1944 (with notes)

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Here were men trying their best to kill other men....

To Swallow Us Whole

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The east wind probes through the eaves, pushing at the walls, as though it wants to drag us out into the cold, to swallow us whole.

The Second Extinction of Chocolate

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Cacao production had always been a tenuous enterprise insofar as commercial cacao tree cultivation had always been limited roughly to the land zones within twenty degrees of the equator north and south.

Bat (n.)

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Flying mammal with thin membrane forelimb adaptive wings. Amazing number of species from fruit-eating to insectivores. All capable of landing in your hair at night.