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  • abandon your studies boycott a future

    Europe was dominated by Christianity— first Catholic, then the Protestant Reformation. Members of the clergy could come to wield extensive power and influence in their regions, beginning with the officiating at the rites of passage…. abandon your studies boycott a futurea country with trails and lanesroads through fields and forestsvillages of the poor and their…

  • daydream

    daydreamthe words you cannot read abandon themstare at a space on the wall where nothing’s writtenin the gallery of your head on a wall hangsa perfect rendering of a pretty wench’s facean accurate remembranceof what her paps and her hips do to a gowndo arithmetic think fingers calculatethe number of months of weeks of daysbefore…

  • rather than have you

    It was an anti-romantic era in Europe, especially among the nobility and the wealthy: Most often, marriages were arranged to serve political and economic agendas. And people in vestments usually had a second— a third— even a fourth religion. And the relationships between teachers and students, and masters and apprentices in both the trades and…

  • say i’m

    say i’m given leave from my evenings and the nights of my weekfrom the books i read and the paper on which i writefrom my mornings and my weekday afternoonsthe lectures and the lectern at which i standleave to ride in a merchant’s carton the road out of my entire life

  • nora

    University of Wittenberg: Late 16th/ Early 17th century. nora say she’s jerusalem say she’s mecca i tell you she’s another wench stays in a castle room near antwerp

  • five oclock’s the first to leave

    five oclock’s the first to leaveit also goes out through the staffonly doorits mouth’s a horn it leaves behindits voice is the sound of the hornits word is its voice that goes out in the rainthat goes through the rainwithout an umbrella without getting wetit wraps itself around the parking lotit gets into parked cars…

  • the hipwaders

    after you’ve movedthe pipes through the thigh deepdew and drops of riverwater hunched on the grassblades on the leaves on the cornhusks when you come in leavethem out

  • in a driveway

    in a drivewayfar in the north of the cityat an hourin one of the long nights whenbedroom windows in the house next door becomelightbulbsa gallon of blood pulls open a car dooras the kids next doorbegin to dress for school returnthemselves to the levis they wore yesterdaythe blood turnsbends itself at the knee shapesa skirt…

  • when i told the kids how the world was

    when i told the kids how the world wasborn i said junior i said prissy i said listenyesterday morning in the pasture wasa universe and through the universe planets moovedup the universe and down planets grazedtoward the sun rise and toward the sun’s descenttoward the rumour of the north starand toward the conspiracies of southern…

  • it was a day like any

    it was a day like anythrough the upstairs hallway most of the afternoon had passedall the doors out of the daylit hours remained closedin the time behind one of those closed doors i sleptread studied wrote talked to myself sleptthen the habit of the years was brokenas the late afternoon sun litthe hallway through a…