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How Would It Feel?If the Earth blew up from the center, / in a hot, red explosion, / and turned to nine colossal rocks,
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Dec 5, 2013
Trains (The Great Metal Snake)America on a map! / Imagine the northeast corner. / I am in Vermont riding the Amtrak southbound. It's raining.
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Nov 23, 2013
Death on the LakeThe lake is like an old mirror. / A great rain cloud hangs. / The boats zigzag.
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Nov 19, 2013
The DesertI staggered through the desert, dressed / in brown rags, / ripped. I was surrounded by flies.
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Nov 19, 2013
I Sat At My Desk During A WindstormGreat gusts of wind rattle the windows, / howling, howling, / I sit at my desk,
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Nov 18, 2013
A Short RhymeI know that when I die, / I want crow's feet / next to my eyes.
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Nov 17, 2013
Ten-Eleven PM, the Thirteenth of November, Twenty-ThirteenLife is sweet and sad, I think. / I'm sitting on a desk chair made of wood. / I hear my heart beating.
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Nov 13, 2013
ChildhoodIt's 1997. / My mom is standing over the sink, rinsing out a plastic gallon-jug of milk. / The kitchen is sunny.
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Nov 13, 2013
Mount Fuji is StrongerA photograph, taken at dusk, of Tokyo & Mt. Fuji looming behind, / a line, running horizontally across the middle of a photograph; / below it, the city: a field of lit buildings & streets,
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Nov 9, 2013
The RevolutionBlaze of a rubble-car a man in faded jeans shouts, hurls a bottle -- *smash* -- a thousand shards of / broken glass shine orange on crowded street. / Shouts, cries, infants sobbing loud---sirens, car alarms, a man ***** back his hand,
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Nov 4, 2013
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