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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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Text and Video: he picks up jorgy every night at eight oclock
he picks up jorgy every night at eight oclockhajorgy asks where’d the pauper get the chariotsays it dresses him up to a princehathe way he sits behind that steering wheel nahhe’d be humbled by a crown diminished by royal robesjorgy says they drive out to tiny’s place to loseat poker every night ‘til well past Continue reading
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tomorrow when the sun is still in its seed
tomorrow when the sun is still in its seedbefore the seed cracks and the first lightsprouts then spreads like a sudden vinetoward dusseldorf and cologne tomorrowremain blind as a mole ratthough the voice of the nightjarrestores your hearing and the song of the robin cures your senses remain blinddusk yourself back into dreamdusk yourself deaf Continue reading
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Text and Video: abi asks why i answer the ten oclock
abi asks why i answer the ten oclockquestions at rex’s café yeahhe sold that land sold the machinery he’s retired now y’knowbought that pickup new and all he doesis drive the old lady to the city to do errandspick up groceries at the i g afeed at the mill so she can feedthe chickens in Continue reading
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the final dawn
the final dawnsomewhere in thuringiaa bud on a twig of beechbuddedfrom dusk when the day shortenedinto winter orovernightbudded and now the time of yeardawn thaws and the day lengthensthe beech leaf is parchmentscroll rolled at the end of the twigwhen it’s unfurledinto a green daybreak bethere to read it Continue reading
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