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27 OctThis morning was not a morning. An evening, perhaps. / Noon on a long, dark day. / From the top of the tallest building I watched the sun rise,
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Feb 5, 2010
28 OctThis morning I stretched out, glamorous and lazy, planning to be purposefully late. Dismissive and smiling. What real life? / I took my time, browsing through my thoughts and movements carefully and deliberately. Washed my hair in the sink for the fun and dirt of it. I still didn’t feel quite tired enough. I spoke with clarity and wit, despite the crusts caked over the leftover sparkles in my eyes.
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Feb 5, 2010
a passing thought while bent over the arm of the sofanestled in this husk of half-light, we Are. / you so very / hauntingly swift and strong and me —
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Feb 5, 2010
AustriaThe crack and crash of tree limbs / signaled nothing to me yet - / I did not see him, fearsome head of Death,
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Jan 8, 2012
"Being Alone Together," He SaidIn the deep hollows of an abandoned mineshaft, / poised under the giant reaching claws of ancient / machinery,
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Jan 8, 2012
crept beneath midnighti know that i am how i am because of my eyes / and what they are saying. / dark, they are, stretched and translucent --
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Feb 12, 2010
down/towntoday, i saw / a million things that used to be. / i saw the pavement breathing hard in the mist of
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Feb 5, 2010
for h + jas we sat & / turned around each other / i touched your face &
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Feb 5, 2010
four dayswe are red jacket crew, we are belated petunias. / and we are the shining inside-outs / left over from the cold grass
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Feb 5, 2010
"i swear by all flowers"i remember you, little earthquake / and all those dark nights trembling together / that was my favorite season.
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Feb 5, 2010
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