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Designing a Ship
The careful moon maunders through the glass ceiling
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on these long nights
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when I try to alchemize
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Architecture
I will make a fangle of mechanisms,
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a creature with iron snouts
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and concrete aortas.
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Its fever
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Cleansed by Sin
The godless set fire to the redwoods
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before marching us to the hills.
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Black birds wake on jacara
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The Tabernacle Shook
We know not what we do
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as we wail and wince,
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alone in the woods,
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sheltered beneath the hot lig
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Forged and Undone
Sit, sneak a look at what’s left of nothing,
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a tree alone, a blur of nimbus and fire above no one,
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Let's Lay Low in Moonlight
Before bed I poured my joy into a jar on the stand,
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and when it was full
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flecks of light glided
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Meeting Erwin Black
Under white bulbs
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Dr. Black studies me through the glass.
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I will be figure A on page three,
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an
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Fleeing through Pines
We were once black furred wolves
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fleeing through pines
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towards winter's dark mouth.
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We mocked
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Being Still While Trains Pass
I made small talk
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with your ex-lover at a train station.
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I reminisced about dinner,
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and I gave
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Drift
We drift
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on the winter sun’s glints,
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where the horizon is a musician’s lips
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pressed tight on a
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