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rebound
reboundoff the rimand we in the basketball fall toward the rising geyser of boys who leapup from the hardwoodfloor under the basketwe are airin a brown leather hide we falltoward the water in the skinof reaching armsland on the waterdrops in the skin of six footmanny carpenter’s fingertipsand floaton the water in his handsother arms… Continue reading
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when marcellus looks up
when marcellus looks up through cloud through sun through moonthrough the pattern of stars looks up through the worlds that circleeach other like gladiators through the paths by which they circle when he sees allall the way to where the hand in heaven writes watches the hand write my thoughtsbelieve him Continue reading
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no mirror windows
no mirror windows no walls of shatterproof glass no clear plexi cubicle where a guard sits watches the hall where the stream of elementary kids meetsbecomes the river of students in middle school it’s just a school corridor you look down to a down eyed girl and sheshe never even looks up at youelementary she’s… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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before blondes before brunettes before redheads came
before blondes before brunettes before redheads cameto this country werethere deerskin robes with fringes and beads and bells wornby women who faced the fire orangecrack of light at day risein a season between leaf bud and leaf fall were there women who faced the fire orangecrack of light that dividedthe dark sky from the darker… Continue reading
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like glaciers the mountain
like glaciers the mountainlike rain forests like jungles its body’simmune to every plague it carriesinside the closed bag of its own hideif it has lungs it holdsinside itself every virus it breathesinto its own bloodstream if it has veinsthe mountain doesn’t breathe outif it has blood it holdsinside itself every toxin it bleedsinto its own… Continue reading
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stay the night and wake with me
stay the night and wake with methe morning’ll come it’ll bein the deep of winterthere’ll be snowon the black branch outside the windowwhile you pull your boots oni’ll step out and start the cari’ll brush the snow from the windshield and when you comewe’ll sit and share the visioni’ll turn the heater on and when… Continue reading
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