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i grew up in a patch of green low rolling hill tumbling sky red maple picnics cool earth roses at the chain link spring's surprise play dates out front shoddy wooden hideaway to the rear woodpile-beware! sister scarred angry bees collect red-shingled horizon white shack rear view laundry-line perimieter prison yard beware invisible fence line irish drunks right side wife shouts captures best friend back-rear torment pup trapped evil about boys and bruised knees cheek kisses and sunset bike rides snack spot woods of death the sky fed me my roots tightly woven spanned, undisturbed summer mornings on the run heat like fire pebbles, glass walking on escape, run, be wild dreams your navigator loose teeth mother's hugs father's presence marlboroughs motor, artistically deconstructed colored red powered escape hatch off-license long gone tree trunk porch presence dead bird picnic red-slatted bridge fruit spider visitor tiny rodent winter traps screaming zia e mamma adniamo basta! communion veil st. albans bound pappa, look! gum stuck hair and ruined sleeve tumbled jacks fruit loop bed times mas*h glass box from the carpeted haven orange-smokey scent beat downs behind the woodstove hair-dragged reckonings begging cries anger passed down mother to mother to brother pray, midnight smoke sleepless-haunted hell i grew in no-man's land
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May 4, 2016
May 4, 2016 at 8:17 AM UTC
red maple
i grew up in a patch of green low rolling hill tumbling sky red maple picnics cool earth roses at the chain link spring's surprise play dates out front shoddy wooden hideaway to the rear woodpile-beware! sister scarred angry bees collect red-shingled horizon white shack rear view laundry-line perimieter prison yard beware invisible fence line irish drunks right side wife shouts captures best friend back-rear torment pup trapped evil about boys and bruised knees cheek kisses and sunset bike rides snack spot woods of death the sky fed me my roots tightly woven spanned, undisturbed summer mornings on the run heat like fire pebbles, glass walking on escape, run, be wild dreams your navigator loose teeth mother's hugs father's presence marlboroughs motor, artistically deconstructed colored red powered escape hatch off-license long gone tree trunk porch presence dead bird picnic red-slatted bridge fruit spider visitor tiny rodent winter traps screaming zia e mamma adniamo basta! communion veil st. albans bound pappa, look! gum stuck hair and ruined sleeve tumbled jacks fruit loop bed times mas*h glass box from the carpeted haven orange-smokey scent beat downs behind the woodstove hair-dragged reckonings begging cries anger passed down mother to mother to brother pray, midnight smoke sleepless-haunted hell i grew in no-man's land
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May 4, 2016
May 4, 2016 at 8:17 AM UTC
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