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10:54 PM
There is no confusion / in the ways we hold / our bodies in sleep.
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Dec 1, 2012
AGUE
*(After reading Dorothy Allison’s “To The Bone”) / That winter I did go crazy: / like a growing tire tear,
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Nov 30, 2012
Bloodlines
Myth says when one cupped hand whispers of a name / is when you feel the wind breathe out the same / from where you stand—brushing chimes—together as one.
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Dec 11, 2012
Blue Water
Tell me again of the body culled / from the creek; your calves how / they stiffened in its heavy red flow.
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Feb 23, 2013
Bypassing the Load
We did not have a connection / so much as a small room full / of scattered electricity.
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Nov 30, 2012
Dear Corbeet,
*for Megan* / You do not know me / but i want to tell you,
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Dec 1, 2012
Dear Friend,
antidepressants, that I am not / some war that bereaves you / of your fix, your stark face blots
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Apr 8, 2011
Hypomnesia
I know when it is winter. / When the books begin to show / their thinner side of verity
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Nov 30, 2012
I Will Be Your Girl With Curious Hair
Do you remember how thin the light was / in December? / Creeping in a shade of honey
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Dec 1, 2012
Signal Fire
In midday I watched the children play / on the west side of town / outside my classroom window.
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Nov 30, 2012
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