whatever reason

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cinnamon cookies, circular arbes, heart babies, illusions

the lost days through valleys in

mexico.  she doesn’t know that

the world has been over for

weeks and he doesn’t know that

she is holding the sun of god, doesn’t know

that ferns around her face are

liturgical.  the army passes them

and asks for identification, there isn’t paper

for miles, jokes for days,

love for hours.

fellas and thrillas and drellas

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belached, large basements, minies, sterns

my child has blue eyes, even though

her father is swarthy and I am

from the south.  a bit of chains

aren’t unwelcome in our town.  the stories are

foreign and the vodka is northern.  she is

spinning down

the waterfall, cascading down the

green grocery aisle.  the sun hurts my

eyelids, even when I open my

lidz, even when i tilt my head and stroll in

the shadows.  tornadoes come and tornadoes

leave.  why don’t you ever go to the other side?

what you would do

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camel bros, dallas, dirty sweatshirts, gemini

the man with a long distance

fiance wipes the thin, sandy hair from

his eyes and undoes his

marlboro cigarette.  the tobacco falls

to the cobblestone, the way that family

legends have always been explained.

A niece from an empty marriage lets

her braces disassemble.  a nephew from

another part of the country listens

to street poets.

ones and zeros

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90's sunscreen, orange crush, pine apples, sand paper

a friendly man in a tuxedo suit

types on the computer like it is

a piano.  his hammer is soft

and then hard, the nails spinning, so as not

to be squared.  When the night comes he

pounds, when the day arrives, he respires.

the images of him, the waiting to

exhale, they spell out a name

and that name is

love.

to zhe moon

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dragon, evaluate, necromancers, suspicion

The cider is bitter, but the

air is sweet.  You pick up a

salted piece of pie and bring it

to your friend, the scientist.  A segment

of the future, underneath you.  It is blue and

green, a mass of rising height.  A phoenician

sees you in the water.  He yells for his prince.

They throw you rope, the ropes are snakes, the roses

are wakes, pedals in your eyes.

When the money talks, who ya gonna pay?

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adventure parachutes, blue swim trunks, daffodil yellow, scorched fields

a little man with a sense of

justice chases a loose snake into

a salad of statues.  There is stringy

paint over the

stone faces, the large and strong,

broad-shouldered faces.  The language is

futuristic and the man’s clothes

disintegrate.  He is famous here,

amid the sun-lit humidity.

images in a ground china

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drowning, greek crimes, liver damage, remembering the past

he takes his mask off at the

end of the song, dripping

blue paste over his

navy green sweater.  The dancers behind

don’t know what to do, one steps forward while

the rest are silent.  He brakes away from

the pink restraints, the gaze looking out

the window panes, the fruit, the tobacco,

the cup full of drink.

des and dos

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bloodNguts, e.t., sousa, trembling

there is an older couple

who are married, but also

pilots.  They don’t have any children

and while they are walking

across the coast, a boar runs towards

them until it dies suddenly.  The man

quickly blames a piece of

technology

which he doesn’t understand.

guitar riffs across the sky

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beloved, hobbits, nike swooshes, pralines

if your life was a field

and you swam in sunflowers,

would the sharks be covered in

salt?  the men around the corner

want to talk to the people in

the village about you.  They want to

know where you are.  One steps in front of the

roman aqueduct and writes a

letter to his father.

a feral wall moving and revealing a place of solitude

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grated cheeses, hard bread, holders, pec necks

a fat man drifts into

pakistan’s greatest spiritual

resting places.  The shapes around him shift,

the lights turn into shadows, the shadows

morph into stone.  his wife enters, and we hear

nada, she takes her hands together like

she is praying, but she rubs sunscreen

over his forehead and bulbous nose.

They find a little boy to adopt.