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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.

Brian Epstein’s Letter to His Mother

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All that loves green produces green.

The Sound of One Story Clapping

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And aren't we are so then so rarely The hero in another's story When we want to be. And why are we so always Rounding stories on the heroes Who don't want to be? And aren't we are so then are so rarely Heroes in each others' …

Bronwen, Painter of Miccasukee Street

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Walking in the just-thereness of afternoon, Scrubbed out by the Tallahassee sun, Past the same Shocking banana trees that have been The most dramatic occurrences all year Since her move from the north, She thinks we must stop…

Brian Epstein's Letter to His Mother

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All that loves green produces green.

Brian Epstein's Letter to His Mother

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All that loves green produces green.

O Fortuna

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This poem begins my poetry collection. It is about the pain and suffering I experienced when I had an attack of two pulmonary embolisms, one in the right lung, one in the left. This nearly killed me. I lived with the pain in my lungs whenever I took a bre

Bowling With Diane Keaton

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Friday night, 80s halcyon,a memory of October bowling.The suburban lanes loudwith kids and kinetic releaseof balls slamming on maple.I have no footwork, no senseof release, fingers sweatyin the grips, resin droppingwith a hollow boomfollowed by derision from more adept…

A Regime With No King

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Blank space / governs the minds of small children

"Natural Causes"

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Repeat after me, this Chevy Tahoe is something to behold.Flirt with the suburbs by renting a basement apartment, choke on whatever is blooming behind the drywall, drown in the greatest flood to happen this week, and pack what the wave didn't…