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the hunt
I look for you in the bustle of changing seasons--
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the promise of eternal life is stashed
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in eve
1m
Dec 4, 2016
the dinner guest (unannounced)
I cut into chicken parm, a massacre with fancy china.
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A crusty napkin blots my eyes, wipes the jui
1m
Dec 4, 2016
a mermaid with a kimono, spray-painted green
Seaweed drapes down my back, cloaks
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my shoulders like a thick leather cape.
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Snip, snip. A piece
1m
Nov 3, 2016
with tired eyes
i am the white noise of cicadas chirping
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air conditioning chugging, a train on a track
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but i don
1m
Oct 4, 2016
Overlap
Bite a strawberry in June and try to tell me you can't taste color.
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A quiet lapping sea sloshes pi
1m
Aug 29, 2016
forty dollars of regular, please
i wonder when i will see a BMW as just a car
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and not a haven--an earthy smelling
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burnt orange ce
2m
Aug 15, 2016
three-legged pegasus
and just as the last tear drop
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was wrung out from the duct,
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a drenched washcloth hung to dry, /
1m
Jun 5, 2016
houdini, sawed in half in a casket.
i often wonder how i will die. skin cancer.
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heart complications. liver cirrhosis. old age.
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undet
1m
Apr 11, 2016
waiting by the tracks
history textbooks and family trees
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only to be chopped down by greed.
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losing limbs, broken teeth,
1m
Apr 8, 2016
a hollow chord
On misty October mornings
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I rub sleep from tired eyes.
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Expect to feel your mouth
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graze mine wi
1m
Mar 7, 2016
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