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Brier PatchPress your ear close. / Sometimes you can hear the breath / rattling in my chest like a bone shrugged
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Oct 18, 2011
Castor and Pollux and the Siege of Paris*December, 1870* / After the beef was gone, / after the pork and the lamb,
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Dec 29, 2011
Dandelion GirlYou grew up / on the side of the road, / between sidewalk cracks,
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Oct 18, 2011
RareWe stood on the wood bridge / over old Shoal Creek when / you reached up and shook
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Jan 24, 2012
Rules for a Nightly News Feature on ObesityFat people have no heads. / They end at the shoulders, / they are clipped off at the neck.
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Jan 6, 2012
SolitudeThis is the first night / I am lying in the dark / without you.
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Jan 4, 2012
Strange GeographiesAs a child, I used to cut / apart maps of America, / separate the states and
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Jan 13, 2012
The Trembling RoomThe parents are sitting / behind a glass wall / on a brown leather couch.
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Dec 16, 2011
Voyager I and The Blue PlanetI. / I wonder if you remember me. / You said, “Go out. Find me
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Oct 18, 2011
Worry EaterI have put a Worry Eater / on your bookshelf, right / beside your favorite books.
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Oct 18, 2011
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