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Little Heater
All dimples and curls and pigeon toes when sitting, / purple; and gold dangles / light-skinned girl, dark-skinned girl
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Gem
I want to be the stones to your riverbed, / pipeclayed satellites, / so that you move forever about my body
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Stratosphere
From here, there's a whole sky spread like / blueberries and jam, like / fields of stars and I'm sprinting
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Black Bear
You confess your love like dropping a stone into the ocean. / She swallows it whole and greedy / rolls it about her mouth,
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It Was a Warm Night in Madrid
It was a warm night in Madrid, / when I met her. / She rounded the corner like a siren would the sea,
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Oni
On the street in Tokyo one summer / a woman seized my shoulders, / her coarse hair as coal as night and hugging her face
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Thursday
You're making a great circle around my Earth, / my green-blue sphere, / baby, you trickle sweet Carolina gold satelite-honey, daffodil swans snaking
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Waterway
I want to be the stones to your riverbed, / pipeclayed satellites / so that you move forever about my body
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Freight Train
I'm at the end of the trail, a caboose burning midnight like a poet, / like a nobody / I'm behind Blondie and Blue Eyes and Whiteskinnygirl number one two three
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March
Over the cliff of our bed / I am a waterfall. / My backbone curls into rainbows,
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