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“Auguries not arguments commend…”
Auguries not arguments commend themselves as healing needs forswearing the unswerving dicta of the mapped marked and marketed territory where fixities are at premium where coordinates are not antidotes but the hastily assembled flowcharts of blood circulating for refineries under the fretwork of broken bones and empty souls fueled to prime grade purpose against the […]
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“Traffic in Magnificat…”
Traffic in Magnificat lest the war fog cloud sense and layer it like contrails conducted by droning birds of antique metal and new design Efficiency ‘s spark riddles deep holes into angels rends belief into plastique vision seeks horizon horizon into orison orison one letter away from prison there is choice no matter how thin […]
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Sorcery
Certain laws – like, say, those of spellcraft – cannot be told. Always an erring is in the telling listening will not remedy. Nor more words undo. Some have tied the instruction to song; but even then too much clothing of talk contrives and conceals spell’s broken, immediate urgence. There are, then, no recipes to […]
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Check-Out
under the flat- felled seam of clouds we gauged the cross-wall by a whisper and considered whether to wait in bed for the sun to burn off what was said
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Interstate
above the clamor of overdrive we cussed each other and turned aside as cornstalks stroboscoped at seventy-five and clouds divided back from forth
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Manner
she knits a flat wick and waits quilts the quarter-bed and mends her distress with a needle and thread squares a rip in the hem of her dress as the old song ends with a grin when the farmers turned to miners their women turned to men
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Selah (for Lisa Fishman)
PSALTER first second third fourth fifth sixth seventh eighth ninth tenth eleventh twelfth thirteenth fourteenth fifteenth sixteenth seventeenth eighteenth nineteenth twentieth twenty first SELAH twenty second paper comb tattoo apostrophe plural & fewer than orchard oriole orchard oriole furrow furrow rows & hands collapse sisterly quince & Douglas fir currant throated clover fold & suddenly […]
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Phenology Notes (for Blue Dress Park)
29:ix:2013 11:30 AM perforated elm lily ellipsis imperfect cultivars punctuated vine 9:xi:2013 8:36 AM yellow locust leaves hanging on the rug 9:xi:2013 1:43 PM a third landscape dark-eyed juncos slate-colored dark-eyed juncos a third landscape slate-colored dark-eyed juncos slate-colored a third landscape 13:xi:2013 2:00 PM block by block yellow gingko leaves blanket the sidewalk 16:xi:2013 […]