mackenzie-turner
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a foreigner lamp lighting
fistfulls of tsampa, butter lamps, / kneeling till my legs are cramped / and feeling less than human here,
10
Apr 4, 2012
alien, alien
an earth spilled you soft / onto meadows of grass / and arms lifted you up
16
Jan 26, 2012
Anachramorata
lover, I fear the future. / I fear you, a century behind me / I fear the lights that appear
18
Nov 25, 2011
and the earth is hot and blind
I feel it now, a separate sense / from the hander-down of names: / A poet’s soul, a half, a whole;
11
Nov 25, 2011
Apsis
I make a jest of your many dimensions / curving our time / and its massive indentions
9
Dec 11, 2011
a very narrow human interval between two tiger heartbeats
I felt with one hand in your depths-- / *fathomless!*--for an emblem, an anthem! / No other time but then
23
Dec 11, 2011
baby brilliant future
when your arms are around my waist / when I make coffee in the kitchen / it traces a delicate line around the present.
21
Mar 14, 2013
dal niente
she’s only got one arm, but that doesn’t stop her / from playing the piano Tuesdays; / clever girl, she’s got a rig,
41
Jan 26, 2012
darkling hush
i slept in the heart of the swallow’s breast / in the tire-swing marina / “who do you love best?”
9
Dec 6, 2011
dental records
I used to keep my baby teeth in a butterscotch tin. / I guess I was making an investment / in tooth-fairy stock; trying to diversify my easter bunny portfolio.
41
Mar 14, 2013
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