observant of landscape and entitled
to alter it
educated guess what’s buried in the trenches
I’ll mandate its rise
natural as everything I
associate myself with
slow momentum
desert weather deck
and bulk merchandise
adapt my speech to the ration of words
per day wardrobe of
consistent head covering
age-old loose cloak
swirl of flax petals
circulatory strategy
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parts of me left vigilant aortic
and shellacked
someone known from anecdote vanishes and influence vanishes
funny composite smell
of faux animal print
lips abbreviate
a shape like that of a capital S
denoting the next
after R
certificate recaptured
bungle a needless T shape
this passage was always a flare
my tactical advantage
appear signature
calm in pain
I have a repore with
the medical conditions engraved on this medallion