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The mathmaticsThere were efforts to sling a steeple around a cloud, / to enclose a smoke ring in a palm, / bring a mountain to a riverbed. They failed.
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NervousYou have worn your skin / and never asked where it would end. / In rooms made larger by the Old Masters,
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percussionThe legs are two folded petals / tucked supplely under the weight of your torso. / The arms are a cloak thrown over the thighs;
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Day of cicadasLate summer a lofty pause. At work I am absent from myself; from any conviction. The vegetation has reached to its fullest and covers the vision. Memory free of concern. As in the work of nighttime to morning, so memory of other seasons is dimmed. We wish to retreat at length and recline to watch the season's sunset. Not yet the descent into the urgent. A moment sent to you so silent, it is punctuated with the song of cicadas, chyrp of crickets, so nourishing for you have only to lift your eyes to see.
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Canoecanoe / by the oyster bay / in a mountain blue
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MetabolismMetabolism consumes the wood, tree, mountain, slope. / Breath is the smoke of their togetherness. / Where can I rest myself?
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the strand ghazalThe slipped knot of now into *will be* / is such a gentle strand, / the braid undoes itself from yesterday
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firefliesThe incident of a hundred fireflies / like tiny ships / on their way, haphazardly,
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UnderseaWhat cloud, dim constellation / you pale moon of deep detachment from the self. / Dark moon undersea, you are unwilling to perform me
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camp zaatariAs if ornithology was the Esperanto of poets / wishing to construct a phoneme or pheromone / to extoll the details rather than build the case.
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