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Acting Up
In Waterstones / Sighing at the bestsellers / opaque at the corner of my right
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Jan 9, 2019
Adventures in Storytelling
So the lads decided to head down the town one day / (it bein' a great stretch of sun, especially for here, / and playin' Fifa tournaments and
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Jun 22, 2015
A Few Lines on Contemporary Equality
O Human Evolution / of indeterminable joys / This is the first era in History
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Jun 6, 2013
After Hanging The Wreath
Regret is not / The fleeting deferral of / some brief romance
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Jun 14, 2014
Anecdote after Rain
Lovely thoughts are shackles. / They invoke what even the microscope / omits from the commentary
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Apr 7, 2016
An Old Tibetan Rug (Translation)
Your soul, which loves my own, / Is woven with it into an old Tibetan rug. / Strand by strand, these enamored colours,
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Dec 16, 2018
A Pastoral Scene
First morninglight through windowpane / falls to kiss / the carpet, our front garden’s Clarkia
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Sep 1, 2017
Aspirations
It's a shame how you must have aspired me to become the child you always wanted / in the months and days before I was born, / before reality had its chance to construct the person I would become.
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Jun 28, 2012
At Halloween
This season is / Memories of kids whipping past / blowing dead leaves on bikewheels
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Nov 1, 2013
Breathe This Day
Let the morning's light bell ring / because it is the bell of days / that leads, leery, into other days
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Mar 21, 2016
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