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Sober
Too fucked up to ever get fucked up.
1m
Jun 12, 2022
Darling, I want you to die like the sun
Even the sun will die, my dear.
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Burning as it’s ending,
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ending as it’s giving,
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giving as it’s
1m
Jun 7, 2022
She is a sunflower
She is a sunflower -
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a fully alive homeland.
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Grown to bloom into the dust,
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she follows the sun
1m
May 11, 2022
Tick, Tock
Tick
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Can you hear the time?
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As her pencil – tap, tap, taps – on the desk,
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history drones on in
3m
May 9, 2022
Tornado Warning
When the sirens come on,
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don’t remain above ground.
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Your dad will probably stay and watch. He /
2m
May 9, 2022
Mars is Humming (A Found Poem from Maya Wei-Haas’Article, “Mars is humming. Scientists aren’t sure why.” published in National Geographic on February 24, 2020)
Under its frigid, dusty surface,
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Mars is humming.
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Alien music.
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The Martian song that never end
2m
May 9, 2022
Undocumented Carriers (A Found Poem from Melissa Healy’s Article, “How ‘silent spreaders’ are fueling the coronavirus pandemic” published in the Los Angeles Times on March 17, 2020)
Novel coronavirus.
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Travelers in motion.
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Spewing the virus.
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One fervent hope
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in danger of bei
1m
May 9, 2022
Papa Don
The crusts of wheat bread
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will turn my hair curly.
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I believe this
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because of Papa Don.
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It’s
1m
May 9, 2022
Speculum Feathers
Ducks have secret blue feathers
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beneath their wings. They’re
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called speculum feathers.
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I like
1m
May 9, 2022
Resting Water
Okoboji’s wave-crashing lullaby
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baptized me whole.
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Her voice sounds just like
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my grandmother’s
1m
May 9, 2022
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