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you don’t care
you don’t carethat the sky will never again risenor descendthat while the sun will never again begin to climbfrom the base of the mountain upthat slope that facesthis way the moon willnever again falldown the other sideit doesn’t matterto you if today the sky beginsto stopif today the sun and the moon beginto standdistant flashlights…
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roadboys
roadboysby the false dawn timed by your headlightsyou’ll see the white distress of their thumbspull over and stop for themthey’ll watch the opening of the passenger doorthe spilling out of an offer of lightthey’ll wonder why you stopped for themyour brake lights will crestthe waves of their tears with clear redshine on their faceslike the…
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someone anyone
someone anyone look where the baby’s ati know the neighbor wantssomeone to like her too and you can pitchyourself to her like a used car later you can pitch yourself like a vacuum cleaner like a set of pots and pans but notright nowdidn’t anyone hear that first sound like a thunderrumble in the far…
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the hour that lethbridge was
the hour that lethbridge wasthen was an hour half of what the city now isan hour more sparsely constructed populatedan hour that was one of many in the province of the hour of albertain which a few hours werebigger like the hours of calgary edmontonbut all were like the smaller hours that wererooms in the…
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with this hand i reached
with this hand i reachedout the window and releasedthe raven who flew and foundcarcasses afloatupon the apocalypse of flood and fedand never returnedand with this same hand i reached out the same window and releasedthree times released the dove who flew and foundnothing and returnedflew and found an olive leaf and returnedflew and found an…
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and we lay down in almost heaven
for Sarahand we lay down in almost heavenand we lay down on the grass the longlush grass of europemoved our legs leftleg like this to the left rightleg like this to the right andmoved them back againswungour arms from our sides like thisup over our heads and moved them back againwe lay down in the…
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it’s may
About twenty years ago, I sat for a few minutes one morning and jotted down a list of things that I became aware of — sights. sounds, and smells especially. I arranged those images into a structure of sorts. In the years since, I’ve come back to this from time to time: And each time…
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manny carpenter tosses us
manny carpenter tosses uswewho were capturedinto a legal system by compressorcrowdedinto the tanklike saturday night drunksmeasuredin pounds per square inchwe weighwhat air weighswe were sentencedto incarcerationin basketballtransportedby hose injectedwith a needle through a valvein admissionand here we arewe are legionit’s our numberthat makes the room roundso round the ceilingis the wall and the wall is…
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i never thought as I carried her over the threshold
i never thought as i carried her over the thresholdthat the october wind would blowthis cold and this continuous through the wallfrom around the window frame in the wallit blows down on where the child’ll sleepblows the pilot light in the gasfurnace out and this with cold comingback in augustwe’d planned to put a crib…
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