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LEAVES

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...black birds fall from trees...

LEAVES

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...black birds fall from trees...

Banana Republic

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I would love to believe that this poem might sell a poetry book

Human Trafficking

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The dark is crowded. Heat from the other girls thrums like the road beneath us. We are crossing the border. I used to dream that one day I would make it to the United States, but not like this, not like a prairie dog that digs under…

Nope

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Can't cope.

the 10 most popular shoplifted items in the U.S.

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Filet mignon, is #1. Jameson’s is next. Scotch. Electric tools. An iphone 4. Gillette Mach 4 blades. Axe deodorant for men. Polo Ralph Lauren. Let’s Rock Elmo. Chanel #5. And number 10: Nikes. You wanna know what I got caught w

learning to unread

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what happens to literature's characters when their readers traverse the veil?

Woman in Tableaux

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from first words to something real

To A Christmas Angel, a triptych

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You are present with me, fighting against the weight of the raven-colored robes of night. I am by the window. The cold air, indomitable in its mission, has breeched the glass and I struggle for warmth. I doubt you are equally affected.

Weeping Cherry, beside a Pond, with Koi

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This is the beginning

Woman in Tableaux

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from first words to something real

The Second Poem of Xmas

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Xmas poem the second The one I never wrote I typed upon a virtual page Composed a mental note Deck the halls with holly boughs Dream of Xmas white

His Name is Chaos

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Should probably be faster at the cash register

Dead Reckoning

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among letters like so manystrange fireflies with verso tothe left and recto toright behinda mirror's unknown origins ahead the paradoxof distance underfoot tracksa symmetry here but not yetthere above gray and beyond that by…

The Stick

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When you finally got blood from the hard stick You spotted the backflash of red And said Thank God. The woman’s legs and arms Were everywhere, and you were in the middle Holding her down with one hand while wielding A butterfly in the other. You stuc