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A Weekendhandpicked blueberries in yogurt, / tea on the porch, Ellen, / in desperation to plant a raspberry bush.
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Hipster Girls on NewburyThey squirm inside their clothes / tweed, chiffon tiered skirts, and bows / of their grandmothers’ sepia, halcyon days
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Poetry as Tiger BalmIf you wake tomorrow with / bruises blooming purple-yellow / across your knees
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The Baby BirdIt was an accident / but my dad kept crossing / his legs, looking to the window.
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Poetically Reproducing A Dublin FlingDublin is soaking, / ink running on sentences, churning on the page. / America is splintering,
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Nest for Blue BuntingsSurrounded by beachgrass, / as the sun bares its teeth, / and wind tugs my hair,
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e.e. cummings blurred and *****Her tongue in cotton, / a crack / between her jaws:
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Swingour bodies are slack / lines of rope / thrown up to the sky
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Death of a Hollywood RomanceShoeboxes in the upstairs prove / when veins were tight and hair was / that shining, gleaming, streamin,’
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NamngivningI. Anna Sophia, 1878 / Her name unfolds like raw white hands / small zaffre eyes, hair gold against her neck,
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