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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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Aug 9, 2011
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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Aug 16, 2011
Dandelions.
Like the winters long lost petals / as it will compose into dirt, / this new dandelion vessel
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Jul 9, 2011
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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Aug 16, 2011
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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Jul 9, 2011
III
A most beautiful river once crossed my path / and took from my eyes, cut out exact. / as she placed them upon her buttercup petals.
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Aug 16, 2011
Ivory messages of control.
Rebirthed into cold waters, / with saint Sebastian's arrows falling on our foreheads, / leaving a penitent blood dripped on my lips. You kissed it off me like it was honey.
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Aug 16, 2011
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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Aug 16, 2011
Marktplatz
The rain approaches fast, pencil is slight, / and I leave words quick with flight / I feel speckled kisses on my cold neck
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Aug 16, 2011
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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Aug 16, 2011
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