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no hearts no monarchs
no cartoon war lips on
basswood wide
potato chips backlit by
bags of body bye bye sun
cry rag sun 




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road used to go out 
just that far just for him 
white pines devouring
his name none recall 
the clear way he had 
of seeing nothing 
when he saw 
his hands
as traps 
maple syrup taps 
cryin clear 
trees bleed reception




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seems i don't need hardly a thing these days
first robin on first one she sees
red wine coffee cup 
shot of schnapps
christmas in tucson
turkey foot's surveyor's bundle 
signed the not waiting she
carpet foam saguaro
fours this dust between




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and the winds get to going
and the pine boughs 
itch at the edges of themselves
ocean or a coming train and
the endless swamp goes white
then green 
as mold might host a bone
pitbull profile bobcat
skinned by the launching
swamp eyes softening




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yes you are 
about to blink
blink and sing 
ditty riddle
cribbage peg crazy
hail only up up 
thousand and 29 puppy teeth
pretzel this A string
acupuncture 
for free 
after hours 
colander factory 




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in my littlest toe 
porcupine lips 
closing 
on the needle 
of a pine




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tend intend then 
out yr pockets 
walk ghost guns
nimble handle quick 
what's yr number 
what's in fire 




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we'll wash next 
week we'll wait and 
wash in summer 
marry with papers from straws
split up every third rain and
folks and by folks i mean good
dogs'll follow 
win fan card grins wide
what came my show way
scavenger heart 
a gather scatter stray 




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snaky rays ranger range
fox and coyote and bobcat
wooden ocean waves
cowroad deerroad froglode
broke eyepatch string
stretchy jogpant smell please
carpet foam sandwich toast 
frozen mayonnaise blues 




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o you angel anger 
just before the river 
three stations 
no regrets this one time
hiss seams 
any branch an arrow 
go long 




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preach a peachy peachpit street
soft little rescue 
boat moan 
now ya go on
what yr head legs
hands and gut hold only
now ya make aspen 
frog coin stories 
talkin with yr hands 
out holes in knees
of jeans by frigate fruit 
firelight fair 




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if only a summertime 
of the mind 
wildflower men 
wide olde heads
like kidney coins
broomstick necks 
diamond hips 
of garden trowels 
for adam's apples 
on rain sage gnomes




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nods off to no
treats his life like a short
cut to turpentine 
left at that ass brick mailbox
right by the painted bunting
thru pope talbot trees
just a little gap rat
sliver light grinnin 
opaque grape 
down in mine 
copper or coal 
and a certainty 
poisons the poison




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the author 
pees and the good dog pisses
just there 
raw honey 
in the rabbit ears 
of the buck track 




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singing go pure
singing go tighter right here
go slimmer vegetable flesh cow water
go human doing's a hem 
go puts a squeeze 
go ravel narrow rave 




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cue cactus fred's cough button
again named him when  we
were not 
strangers to private smells 
wet dust bearding 
the bathroom fan 
old mr raisin eyes
akimbo in 
forgiving canvas shoes 
my dad maybe yours too