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Nov 25, 2022

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Some new constellation, which encroaches on Reason. Symbiosis with what was already You, in A fragmented sort of way. Epiphanic, strange — Like light from another room in another time, …

Poetry

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Poetry

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Sep 21, 2022

Counter Signal

So it is with the frantic vanishing of things. Late into the escapade you wondered why you felt this Way and how. The trees and the deer outside were Not…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Jul 30, 2022

Prophetic

You were walking backwards into the strength Of somebody else’s poem, all while you were not looking. The trees were the color of the houses, the houses The color of…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Jul 28, 2022

Religious Text

It was only in the frenzy of an unheard of Night that I heard you singing the end of God’s life. In the private language of hopelessness, all of us…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Jul 27, 2022

Diminishment

How, I, in taking you apart diminished myself was beyond me. And yet tamed and merciful I sit here listening. Situation After situation unfolds without choice. The drugged forests Have…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Jul 26, 2022

Pieces

a poem

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Pieces
Pieces
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Jan 31, 2022

Secretly

You were secretly enamored With the split backbone of the sex and Centuries and the love hereafter of feeling alive. She brushed the clouds and the earth stopped its tumult. …

Poetry

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Poetry

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Jan 11, 2022

Grammars of Creation

Now there is never something that You can never quite articulate that speaks Up and down the ladder of vowels and vows And moves you to assimilate yourself into The…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Jan 7, 2022

Diary of a Plague Year

Fake fears have obscured real needs. The need to protect oneself from Covid at all costs has muted the will to live. Civilization puts a lid on our cruelest tendencies, but the steam just hisses out the sides. I look at the year ahead and I think: that is just…

Philosophy

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Philosophy

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Jan 6, 2022

Movements

Half of what I said was metaphor. Quietness, the gift. The heart asleep. I drew a circle here: eyeless and strange. I strapped you in. The moths Around the house…

Poem

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Poem

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