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his mother brought him to me/ when he was very young/ maybe a few months old,/ born in arizona july.
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After the box was in the ground, we dumped the soil on top and patted it down tightly in case the bird came back to life and haunted us.
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Chuck woke when he smelled cooking.
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in a plain brown bag to snort like a glue addict: Curry and porn The dog walker’s tangled pets
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Who knows how long I have been crouched here, tied down by kelp and thin vines, trading laments with animals? They all look terrified.
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I know now, how she moves without verbs
after you crushed her into the river.
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It is hunting season
in Jersey today.
They say
“There are too many deer
in Jersey today.”
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Feathers littered the ground beneath the sycamore, glossy black ones, short one and long.
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He’d lost any contact with the last woman he’d attempted a romance with, a nurse from Dublin, who, after a romantic weekend in Moate with him had departed with his kissing her forehead and admonishing her to “look after yourself, now.”
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Heartbeat sped as heart size shrank to a ribcage of hollow bones. The curlew’s cry froze over the open bog and morphed to the trill of the river-bird.
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