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Month: February 2020

Posted on February 29, 2020March 11, 2021

Each — as a Spoke

Ah, to float on a femur, to bear the load of Saturn as a wide brimmed hat…

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Posted on February 28, 2020May 1, 2020

Like the Red Leaves

Just a forelimb on the road,careless as a twig,but no plunder for crows,no worthy feast for a scavenge,just hoof, hide and bone. And that’s how they left her,a narrow remain,…

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Posted on February 26, 2020May 1, 2020

On the Burden of Deceit

Who shall bear the burden of deceit –betrayer or betrayed –for a hot lie steams in the streetlike water from a blown hydrant;giddy children splash and tumble,while placid truth stands…

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Posted on February 25, 2020May 1, 2020

On Betrayal

Would you betray a maple for its shade –deny yourself the cool comfort of dim light,sweet woodruff and fern, ground ivy,violet in spring? Columbine refusesfull sun. Your languors burn, blisterand…

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Posted on February 24, 2020May 1, 2020

Ruminations of a Cook Between Rushes

Would that I never find a God or Gods,for that, that would end my faith. My faith –the certain unknowledge of knowinganything but the black ass of Jesus running away,laughing,…

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Posted on February 23, 2020May 1, 2020

Away My Love

Come away.Come away and slurinto hovelling gray,away from the heatshummed low – away. Come, let us carrythis mute owl nightfar from burgeoning day –away – far from the furyof gospel…

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Posted on February 22, 2020March 11, 2021

The Many Ways To Describe A Wife

She was the better part of a Thursday…

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Posted on February 20, 2020May 1, 2020

Know Me

I am Collapse –The stones and bones of a once high tower,The backs of those that raised it, arrogantTo the sun, and I am the fist that crushed it. I…

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