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On our wedding day he carried all of the furniture out of our small bedroom, created a sanctuary.

Texas Spleen

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Can we survive our Y chromosome?

A Quiz Show Audition

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However could anyone get Joyce scholarship mixed up with physical anthropology?

backwash

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today

Horace

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The young boy sat on the swing, hearing sirens in the distance. The tops of his shoes were dirty. His fingers as well, where he drew stick figures of people in the dirt. His…

Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.7 - c.2

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Polo observed Madam Mayweather’s demeanor. The concern in her eyes for the students and faculty under attack by the Nocturne.

From This Distance

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Yes, I can imagine it now/ how we could each disappear completely/ connected only through memory's fault lines/

Blood on Her Hands

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Only blood I got on me was pulling him over onto my seat when I got out.

Breakfast

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Wake up, stretch. Check the curtained windows for sunlight or that dreaded grey frame that forces the covers to come back up and the alarm clock to be set to ‘Snooze’.

The Man Who Couldn't Move

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Without warning his eyes expertly navigated into a closed position setting off the dream machine long without power until this very second.

Small Boat Row Told Through a Roughed Out Dungeon Window

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The princess knew exactly where to find the annoying gurgling frog of her childhood, but she wasn't wearing the right shoes to step onto lily pads with, so she decided there and then to take a stolen boat out onto that soft mission, all by herself instead. It was a…

Karma Wash, Hog Wash, and Swill

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The beer on the shore is Lapping at the foam of memory And I can’t sit still Until I take my pill Karma Wash, Hog Wash and Swill I went to the top of the heap At the bottom of the Hill I saw a bum’s sign that read: “Will eat dog food for

Spiced Nuts

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There are lines// across time, beyond the tug/ of elections and fashion,/ beyond the turbulence of history

The most tender thing

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Somehow, I have your body, but you’ve gone missing.

tears, et cetera

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ghosts are local plagues/of unexpended grief—tears/can't be bodiless.

How to Listen

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Day One

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I lounged in my captain’s chair growing a beard. Things continued in this way and then the president called.He wanted to know the meaning of virtue.

The Prom Queen and the Quarterback

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Friday night, a bar downtown, beneath the swirling dots of disco lights, seated at a table by the door, I come across a Cheerleader from my high school days, having a Martini with the Quarterback she married. Even in forgiving light, …

What He Knows What She Knows What You Know

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next time i come around i want to be a redwood.

Edward Ogle the Ninth

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Vanilla bean trampoline

Moriarty lets her hair down

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He did not hear her enter the room...

A city in the forties

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Along the hollow center

Vacation

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I imagine you in the States, pushing stacks of work papers and our memories to the side, sense your enjoyment that you won’t see the worry of your behavior reflected in my eyes again. That you can buy and bang and be whomever you want,

Zen Yoga Mind Over Body Food Prep Hair Net

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See the hair Know the hair Remove the hair

Scratching into January, 2017

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Follow the money. It seeks/ the lowest of the low and finds them here/ in an embarrassing abundance.

Exchange Student

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Sometimes he could feel so small he believed he could fit through the eye of a needle.

Road Trip

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I threw my hand / at the gearshift/ the car glided off.

Unsent

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this is where we end -- the exorbitant eye of forgotten days.

moon/light

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the cue & flash

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