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Character development / is truly an undertaking. / Perhaps an incomplete
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Jan 4, 2013
A Beautiful Woman
Look at those / downcast cheekbones, / upturned eyes.
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Nov 14, 2012
A Curious Turn of Fortune
Receive it, my impatient heart-- / receive it as it comes. / Do not worry, pulsing thing,
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Aug 1, 2013
a development
as o'ergrown with lust / my childish spirit yet / has been naively quick to trust
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Jan 10, 2013
An Emetophobe Finally Meets her Match
oh, the most familiar face! / --and the rising / with no fall;
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Jun 18, 2012
As Trite and Gray as Words
As trite and gray as words / become with time, my heart / becomes an ashen leaf
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Mar 14, 2012
Cries are an Awful Din
Seven of eight pups writhe against each other / in a great cardboard box cut to enclose them / with pink blanket and wet towel and maternal warmth,
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Apr 22, 2012
Die Trauermusik
My teacher gave me a piece / by Hindemith / when I was newly a freshman
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Nov 15, 2012
First (Haiku)
Today I wrote my / first poem in Spanish--this / is not it, of course.
3
Apr 12, 2012
First I Loved
When first I loved, / I listened to myself. / I heard it from
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Nov 28, 2012
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