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Into IndigoAn arid lantern exhales abrasive hums / It rests in the smothering cloak of humid anticipation / Names of children are scrawled on the nicotene crickets’ lattice backs
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Oct 29, 2014
Not a RiotTears and cans of pop, tear gas and the police / Races and arms, the backdrop of the arms race / When I close my eyes to respect the dead
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Oct 6, 2014
The Vellum Does CryThere are many ways / to break the spine / of a book.
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Oct 6, 2014
The Temple Wallsstaring just north of the afterlife / is an infinite blue expanse; / bedrock of the basilica unearthing her
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Oct 6, 2014
OddityBirdy, mind your ears: my howls dash the desert’s edge / My passing gusts will matt your feathers fair and faint / And scratch your eyes of liquid soul with grainy kiss
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Oct 6, 2014
Clashing MistSordid stepping from the left arise / For to the right she’d seldom think to see / Lashes just like spider webs o’er eyes
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Oct 6, 2014
625 amthere is a place where the digitized vinyl gospel funk / intercepts the rumble of passing cars / and creates the most electrifying revitalization
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Oct 6, 2014
Have A Great Day of Learningresidual voices casting / ruffled dusty shadows / of uneven pulsing
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Oct 6, 2014
burned out (pantoum)a lit candle rests on a mirror / she coaxes the cold from the corners / the candle smiles at her reflection
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Oct 6, 2014
Warming the Springtime (Pantoum)Sandman climbs through the etched window-lace / Tim Hunter and his owl race / They unite the family of stories
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Oct 6, 2014
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