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A sardonic moon/ surveys our plight and cackles.

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Walking those damned dogs is a pain… a PAIN every night. If it’s not urban skunks, it’s Mormons on bikes… the bastards

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sentinels in a frost-blackened field

Morning and Coffee

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A dirtied light falls through/ the grimed windowpanes.

Songlines

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When the planes crashed,when the levees broke,when the ground shook,there was a song I dreamed of,humming subsonic,a chorus of voices and prayersuncorked like the little brown jugthat holds all the love and memories.In the outback, Aborigines believewe create the world by…

Sparks Beneath the Surface

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If I should wake/ before I die,/ just shoot me through/ the one good eye.

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they’d been pumping him with Dilaudid at night, to adjust his palette for what was coming, in the soft lamp light he watched his long fingers sprout pink caterpillar fuzz, knuckles morphed into hinges for Monarch butterflies,

Hogging the Lady

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I watched as the light fled from your eyes, No slowly dimming lamp,

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tuck me

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Lavender, A Liberal

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Betty, batty from hormones, in a fanciful fit, named her daughter Lavender. Husband Don winced. Brothers Donald, John, Billy, and Tom were puzzled and pleased by this sister, this girl, who was a little bit like them, yet not like them at all. …

Hobo's Pastor

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The three of us traveled seven hours that day and Al traveled as far in the service of finding the right tool for his writing.

Sweet Sorrow

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He sat at the bar and waited for her. He looked at the noon drinkers with indifferent eyes.

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BEYOND THE LANE

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She learned the difference between listening and hearing, between looking and seeing.

Black Orchids

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I told him he was just paying for his sins. He gave me a look. "Why me?" he asked.

My Paper Boats, Your Paper Boat

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Clay Women

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"... I knew Willie had gone— out the back door or out the side window. I knew he probably slipped over the fence behind my house into Lou C.’s backyard..."

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Ways of Seeing: Carracci

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chains across all the old doors

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Over his usual ham sandwich and Pepsi for lunch Uncle Waldo used to often say, “Going out in the dead of night without a flashlight is dangerous” and I'd nod but I kept slipping out, sneaking down my secret path and take a dip in the rich neighbor's pool because…

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He grew red-faced at her quiet words, "I'm pregnant."

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Coward, cuckold, she taunts: So be it. He's not a young man anymore, nor as clever as he once was, or thought.

Bullied in the Bible Belt

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Every Monday you brought your Sunday finest to the bus stop...

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Short Cuts

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The shop is swarming with little women.

The Crossing

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There was nothing to do but dream ourselves forward. Nothing to do but not die.

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