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If others call you a maniac or a fool, just let them wag their tongues.
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The horse had been beaten and flies crawled on the beat marks.
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Passions played among the orchids and through cherish and reveal.
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Always I obliged the urban tree, any speechless unblessed nature.
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My brother, only his son by the way he fixes his tie, blind-fingered.
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In carved hearts—the artery, link that links but won’t spell it out.
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In the morning light, I could hear Bashō hard at work.
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Bone unspools its musculature to the crush of atmosphere.
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The first time we love, how tight we hang on to keep from drowning.
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The old dog of inertia gets up with a growl and shrinks out of the way.
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Frail as a breath, it broke at once, leaving a tiny kiss in my fingers.
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Each day I sing the valleys alive. Each night you find a dark pool.
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My father was neither kind nor strong in his bruising.
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Sitting on the edge, I leaned back and fell, wrist-deep, into the body of a deer.
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The light from dead stars only exists in the minds of the living.
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Chill air at six a.m., a bare hand scraping frost from a windowpane.
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I want to be rapt around your linger, not Thumbelina under your dumb.
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My husband once said he wanted to die eaten by a panther.
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You’re too far from where I sit to admire your finery up close.
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Her trust in me is a swirled marble sinking slowly in an aqua pool.
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Splayed toes adhesive on a whitewashed wall, ghost-tattoo.
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For who can escape one’s twenties or browser history?
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I could untie Minnie’s silk, restitch it into places I’ve lived.
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She sits in her wax like a candle. A woman comes, a woman goes.
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Everything white is a white spider. The spider spins regardless of color.
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To get the job, always stay starched, creased to death.
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It’s raining concrete. I bite my grief wetly. Who will test these chains?
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A boat-tailed grackle counts the passing cars from the traffic light.
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May your wife remove her shirt and have an affair with a tornado.