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Elk
Mounted in Ulster Mausoleum
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you greet me with your rotted smile,
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with oaken bones splinted into
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Jun 19, 2013
Deciduous
October brings a flurry of trigger-happy handymen
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to carpet over the potholes, puddles and last ye
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May 20, 2013
Gerry's Revolution
Colonel Hathi with a hurl
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that weighs in his illicit hands
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like an AR18 play-park swing
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and al
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May 19, 2013
Sunday and She Will Not Eat
A Sunday and she will not eat
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cabbage brew
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or the plethora of stale mush
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stuffed within
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her
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May 18, 2013
Enniskillen 3
Mauve block of US is
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frozen butter on soft bread
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it won’t spread smoothly.
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Nelson’s wee brothe
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May 17, 2013
Ballyshannon Brown
They look upon your brindle bake
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and break the silence with their spite
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it whips across the trou
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May 16, 2013
The Croatoan Tree
It sat upon Virginia’s shore
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stalked by the sea,
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it’s lichen pale with salt
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bark that broke th
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May 16, 2013
Lightning Bugs
Not the drip of freeway from Pittsburgh but a rough trundle
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on chalk roads as flaxen skies shade t
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May 15, 2013
Barnams
In the glass I glimpsed her eyes
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they flitted over dappled cream,
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but expectation became a cloud
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Mar 11, 2013
Flagstones
The mossy stitch of a concrete quilt can
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cosy and tuck the gummy road. And should
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we scrawl upon
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Feb 10, 2013
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