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late winter
late winterthe night that lives these months with meat dusk it beganto return through gaps between timbersthrough cracks in the mudded wallsi began to shiver like an aging manfaded to blindearly summerthe day that’s cometo live these months with me i wanted her to be my lover warm and radianti wanted to ask if she’dclosed…
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the candelabra
the candelabrathat’s always on the table whereby goose featherby the changes from the daylight to the lighting of the candles you writethe changes from the greek to the germanwrite by candlelightfor every table in the empirefor the light of every candlea bible
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Text & Video: she must have thought my life was the promised land
she must have thought my life was the promised landeden on earth that’s why she came inshe must have thought it was june where i stoodthe grass greenest as it was on the chapel lawnshe must have thought buds burst into greenleaves and there’d be appleshanging from branches that were bare in aprilshe must have…
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when you’ve pushed down on the floor with both feet
when you’ve pushed down on the floor with both feetunbent yourself at both knees at both hip joints unbowedwhen you’ve stood upright to begin beside your beduncrook yourself at both elbows at both wrists uncurlin your hand the candlestub in the candlestickthe flame you created the fire lower itshow yourself your light your feet your…
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say you carried your candlelight
say you carried your candlelightat mid day meal tomorrowtell yunger yours was the window into the dark the cave dark inside of the predawn lined with velvet black velvetsay you know the hand that carries the nightcarried the dying of the fire in the fireplace and the firelightin the windows of the duke’s manor house…
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Text and Video: abi says they should sell
abi says they should sell what little farm house what little farm remains rent an apartment in the city where his highnesswill still demand his daily twenty and the lionesswithout her plot of garden she’ll go scavenge in the streets nonono i will not be shamed to see her in a dirty tweedovercoat stained with…
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when the story in the book
when the story in the bookbefore the first verse in genesis is staged in your room and you are blindstrike flint on steelspurt sparks into your charcloth saturatethe rag with fireglowthe candle wick dippedin embers the creation of candlelight
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Text and Video: but now he can drive the lioness to church on sunday
but now he can drive the lioness to church on sundayand i don’t have to use our old truck and time i don’t have i don’t have time to haul the loads of potatoes she digsup from her garden to the farmers’ market so his highnesswill have what he calls pocket cashabby says he’s a…
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when you wake
when you wakeblind as you do at every dusk of nightin the hours before sight dimsinto your room through the windowin your dormitory in every cellin every feather filled bag of bed your friendsclassmates peers with their hands feelfind the tinderbox you took to your bedand the short thread in tallow dippedand dipped a hundred…
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