Month: June 2023
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peas
sweet long podsborn of small white flowerssit hidden like jewelsin a summer jungle the wind has tumbled and tangled them to one anotherbut it was the rainthat caused them to shoot highfor the sun-bleached fence tops above a nested mess of allure and wonder;a study in complexitythey catch my eye, play tricks, stake claim:this is…
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pantoum of a memory
it happened to a family i didn’t know, in a town where i thought i knew everyoneit was the friday before christmas, nineteen ninety, i was just ninea fire began in a trashcan under a sink; on the first floor of a beautiful sleeping housein the stony-still woods an oily nest of rags spontaneously burst…
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the fog
make no mistake, it was hersit lived in her hair and in her skin cellseach one of her thoughts and actionsthe words she read, the words she wrote,each one flowed through it. to the external eye, the mist was mistakableit didn’t hang heavy like a bronzed shieldor smell light like the irrefutable scent of her…