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They Named Us CuriosityWho were they? They were explorers. You would have liked to meet them. / Their names were Sarah and Xiahou and Midori and Regina and Parvati and Andrew. / Names were important to them. They gave us each one. There were many of us.

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Aimed for BalanceI once loved a girl from Japan / She told me the two words of her name mean / “Aimed for Balance”

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UntitledI have the willpower of a torrential flood / I have a tongue like a bolt of lightning / The drive of an ardent wildfire

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From Highway 61 Overlooking Lake SuperiorI see the Superior Gitche Gumee. / The clouds slowly descend after a lazy drizzle fills the air with grey. / From atop this hill I look down,

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They Said the Storm was ComingThey said the Storm was coming. / The sky was darkening, the sun was blotted out. / I heard only the wind, felt only rain on my naked body

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Winter NightI feel the chilled fingers of cold caress my cheek, lying here on my bed. / I’m staring at the warm orange ambience of the street light casting soft illusions of foxes onto the snowy earth. / The strings of the guitar in my hand are humming some distant, nostalgic chord, but I haven’t yet strummed them.

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i guess it’s kind of about a transitionThis one’s for the moon. / This one’s for the black rose pinned to her shirt. / This one is for speaking English to each other in two different languages.

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TraumExhaustion sweeps over me like a tidal wave of sleepy blue silk / The fluid, viscous substance slows me / I feel heavy, weighed down as though by drenched clothing

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/liei /lie awake and /stare at the ceiling like it’s going to do a trick / i /wonder about how many jobs i’ve run as a thief / and /count sheep until i /count forty-four, or forty-five, or maybe forty-six and then /decide, that is quite enough sheep

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