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Dandelions.
Like the winters long lost petals / as it will compose into dirt, / this new dandelion vessel
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Uncommon Bucolic.
Wandering paths ask for a dying cloud-drought / One black with the heart of darkness, devout. / A blooming earthly sunrise follows a fountain
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for the King of the Sceptics, in the land of Cynics.
No crocus' will bloom at the bed of this hill / as Orcus attends the open chest, spilled / into a lake that drowns these broken oaths.
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Complications of Homesickness.
In the beguiling romance of a flower / as it grows like lichens up a tower / A melancholic thought does rise,
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Morning in Germany.
Trodden and toxic with heavenly waters, this / the murkiest of hearts that badly needs dialysis / Rupturing them clean, like morning's fresh shower.
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Jetty & Island
Flurries of birds lament with me, / alone on this rock, as I appear to be. / But sat with the island, solice offered their calls
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Oil
Fumes induce this, the nauseating nest. / It dictates what nectar I should drink. / The hues are spoken with cherub's breath
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56' Car crash memory
I built a bar with Jackson Pollock / he gave me lemons, / and we built skyward with the salt of the earth,
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For Böcklin.
From smithson's crystaline jetty, I spy. / With my little eye, an isle of the dead. / Surrounded by the bland entourage of buoys
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The Shallows
An endless barrage of barges once were, / yet now seek less, and imitate scourge / upon a fervent wasteland ruffled with wind
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