214 19 15
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That’s the nature of fortune: it’s incremental.
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99 9 7
|
I looked in and saw myself
not reflected on the walls
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174 22 19
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We were all there—the doughty, robust husbands, / the infirm wives, the incendiary kids
|
245 22 20
|
the huge blanket of its otherness
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1243 3 2
|
Somniloquies rise like the drowned . . .
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144 15 14
|
your tanned hand with a half moon scar warm against / the curve of my waist
|
1438 15 14
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it was your hands—caked
with years-old clay & quaking
from too much solitude
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820 1 1
|
|
970 1 1
|
{ a Triolet }A smile, a wave as I stepped out Into another life altogether ‘Twas little enough to talk about A smile, a wave as I stepped out And O' how after they did shout (Yet now we only talk of weather) A smile, a wave as I stepped out Into another life…
|
1422 4 4
|
Sitting near her desk, like a dunce cap,
red
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205 19 18
|
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341 3 2
|
|
231 16 14
|
no pair of wings whipping
|
101 2 1
|
As you pump the brakes to the cadence of the song, you look at me.
Whoever says brown eyes are mundane, has never seen your eyes that day.
Everything changes, almost instantly, with those eyes and that faint glimmer I feel only I could see.
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1230 16 12
|
He was losing his fight with
malaria, but you would never
know it from his dreams
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