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Dear harpies, helloAre you spooling obliviously in longitudinal linesor a stack of little beltsSummering so voraciously it feltlike it fell from the pocketof Long Overdue & a randokindly handed…

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SEX ADVICE FROM HIPPIES

Mental toolkits are the color of brown paper bags  I’ve never sued anyone! she said at the party I’ve never pulled a tick off my dog’s butt! I pulled one off my husband’s butt! I squeezed into…

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Truthcraft

Were revelations velled You could have un-velled them To dance the seven With your head on a plate Tongueburger Satiated apricot The joke in poems Is pronunciation Elocution probe Moon’s moon…

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SMALL BATCHES

If you stare at a spreadsheet long enough  it will come alive and turn into colors that must be fed with yeast in little bowls Picking her up by the corset is the same thing as licking my brai…

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Regular Actor

There is chaff around my rags and a swoon in my nodal moon.A deep horror of petrichorgreets me daily at the bar.I don’t go to San Diegofor burritos anymore andIkea’s cult-fave bookcasesits undelive…

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you’d been doing your animal asking, dipped your whole head into the creek and then poured out onto the dirt. it would be easier like this, dulling extremes, waking up with mud lashes. it wou…

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Scream Crossed Meadow

First town then town again then hotel key what comes next First town then town again then pie & coffee also Bob also terror Next town remains first town once quiet town a missing person townA m…

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Sliding Kitchen Window

Yesterday, whine and ebb of happy birthdaybeyond the bridal bush. Billiards rack of black-cladpost-grads picked over the pillowy stashI hid near Vonnegut’s house. Battered vole, battered for hours …

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Up the hill & downthe hill The hill is a mountainThe mountainis 976 feet above sea levelSea level is a lever to pull in case of emergencya switch to flood the darknesswith light a parallel unde…

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I am elated because spring, because love, because good God my friends

I am elated because spring, because love, because good God my friends are amazing. Creativity and the shape that contains it, the way that distance exacerbates insecurity and how a look, not even a…

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Shit Outta Lunch

Look at youLook how you lookOn that hilltopBy that meadowSpatulating the exchange rateWith beesSaved-up salisbury steak greaseAnd fried chicken gristleFrom the ‘70sJust look at youSteve of QueensDo…

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Er

From Pamphylia Land of tongues The sounds words make Is not their fault They can’t help it Being spoken Feels like speaking to The language Undertrawler Inxile Returning already From where yo…

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this is diamond class

headless box turtle is in fidelity with the spring ephemerals    rib cage  of a water bird is in fidelity  with the actualized understory    congressional movemen…

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the animal tends to arrive at intervals for bloom-watching, surreal juice of our chins pouring off into sticky fields. we open our abdomens like cabinets, our hinges creak. daybreak calls on the la…

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no fight left

no fight right no fight at all. flagging. falling further from any feeling. all of them. if I fracture, is it fatal? if I freeze– fetal? all these figments. thesefinepoints, fragments, fistso…

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It’s Okay James, Laura Said Remembering Only Makes It Worse

Everything changes         Deeper woods    To find wild        More secrets Parties      In abandoned train cars           Drugs          Exotic birds        Extroverts      Bad tattoos You left me…

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blackout poem

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Does your shapehave little legs sticking outappendages going nowherea goggled eye or crooked fina comb-shaped hairdoor a bit of a saggy muddlearound the middleor what?Let that shape expressitself a…

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had we arrived at tending before this? you know the animal sleeps under gaze so you watch and watch, peel oranges onto your stomach, flecks of juice. it’s a ripe bed, citrus bright, then dayb…

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BEST NOT TO DWELL BUT DWELL DEEPLY

I only write so I can say nothing is finished I’ll start typing and publishing books  as soon as I’m done reading everything Your own book is the only one you don’t read I want to get lost in …

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bleeding

blast it all. blast bruisers and bullies. blast blighters. before the bend in the roadblueskies were boring, but I beg for blue now. I’d bartermy boy to be able to breathe. my firstborn. it&#…

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Who among

Abouties and Aroundnesses Live limbs Reach back to touch Your face Gently measuring Threadlineage Anyoneymous Wing flock Are you speaking or breathing Asleep The furies trill Half-flying Half-roost…

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It’s Okay James, Laura Said Remembering Only Makes It Worse

Spin swerve       Gone summer        Dragging bikes  uphill       Downhill&nb…

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Hindsight and the Everyday

now I wish I’d gone even more pedestrian photo-flash of morning lightningtheir “no, you go” at intersectionsmy jaywalking on diagonalshopscotching twigs and wormsmovie-set rain (wind through wet tr…

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Roused out of my swoonhollow & absenthow could I fight?I had been carryingsomething that looks like a knotin the woodIt was not a knotin the wood It was a thoughtbut wasn’t no goodFresh lettuce…

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FIRESTAR LEADER OF THUNDERCLAN

Cursing and swearing is the cool language of cake and chinos with loafers and no socks They left the centibillionaire’s island  with hand-foot-and-mouth disease and a broken ankle all of which…

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A 30 minute lunch

This is very rough and it got weird at the end but this is where my brain went on my 30 minute lunch.   I am crashing towards the end And it’s another Monday & I feel Near collapse. …

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The meadow

I bless every sneezer Bless the sneezer Not the sneeze The plough of ploems Meandering over here While youander over there In doom pollen yonders Pretty good right Like the pretty wildflowers The p…

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Dr JKL and Mr MNOP

Have you on a hilltop Released a bicycle The big wheel In the front Eventually becoming The same size As the little one behind Staying upright So long as it’s in motion How long is that Let u…

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Meh Collective

Join the microfiber cleaning club? Spic and/or Span a Venn Diagram? Playing the long game of compulsory sports just to avoid dust-busting the futon is okay if we’re all poets, ‘cause the hard work …

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