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			<title>making it home</title>
			<description>for Lt. Glen McCallum upon his return from active duty</description>
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			<title>krokus cavalry</title>
			<description>measure mighty wingshowever soft feeble glistenone never knows what failure bringsuntil success is made to listento marvel at rapture of infinityswallowing seamless happeningsnothing more quaint, astounding,than whisper of lost eternal soulrather mindless nymph of magicshould hover above meaning of ..</description>
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			<title>required.</title>
			<description>to have won the joy of nowthrough enduranceto destiny&amp;nbsp;steppedlooseleafinto blind windpermitted backless blackholes slit by shafts aswindows to an immeasurablelaughter amidstinfinite wings&amp;nbsp;i can lie to you no moreyour breath has left meinhalantdustbelow old..</description>
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			<title>doorstop sculpture</title>
			<description>Stepping with youarms envelopedlove entwinedmelodies never carried chains&amp;nbsp;in motion the other way asquareperhaps&amp;nbsp;an assembly line constructing joy&amp;nbsp;maple syrup eyesthe core i climb intothe soundness of their spanglelobbing in-..</description>
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			<title>five hundred sixteen hours post-evacuation</title>
			<description>napkin's propaganda leaflet dreamshold hope within cool ways disregardingair tells us we can't follow herglistens gather gigantic glowin one eternal momentof debatable coincidenceupon retreated bayyour heart has not won my understandingbut i'll continue my dream to love it, stillbeing as napkinset c..</description>
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			<title>all lost love</title>
			<description>all lost loveis love nonetheless&amp;nbsp;all of it pulls at my breathwith butterfly-magneticmagic&amp;nbsp;all of it shall survive me somewhere&amp;nbsp;my descendants shall smile from itas it steers the wind to their waywardsaunters&amp;nbsp;they won&amp;rsquo;t know why their smilingbut i..</description>
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			<title>Jack</title>
			<description>we cannot spell the mystery of evasion's liftwith the windswept flaws of any diluted word,but we've walked to the ocean with one great-grandfather's giftand reckoned infinite dreams from breakers we've heard.&amp;nbsp;there were titans among usthere were glowing set in stone exam..</description>
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			<title>humanity travels (opening stanzas)</title>
			<description>i've told a few close confidants where this piece is headed, but i don't know how much time she'll need to get us there, and time is not what i have in abundance......</description>
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			<title>wisps of Langston</title>
			<description>4:04 punch out.fill left front tire pressure.maneuver to block tandemfrom holding off entrance.&amp;nbsp;Northbound Turnpike.alignment shimmiesonto local spur,through 25 mphEZ Pass,onto lower levelunder apartments,(lode bearers buried beneath soot.)pass &quot;homelesshungryGod Bless You&quot; signle..</description>
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			<title>British Petroleum -vs- sandcrabs</title>
			<description>we dig.children of usspeed wet sandinto fans behind them.as handfuls dispersethose creaturesthe youngn's attempt to harvestescape from brief captivityinto their beside breaker universei try nonchalantto drop the injured one to grainswhile handing overthose without casualties.little girl, then,pick..</description>
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			<title>putnam point</title>
			<description>go out and buy your owntickets toward deliveranceforgo every preparationfor a chance to roll in rosesconsume iced downginger ale of memoriesshifting from sharp to paleremember you've been placedon this deckfor no strict reasonlife is a bargesurging through chopped watersbehind the tugboat of the sou..</description>
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			<title>a posthumous excuse for mankind</title>
			<description>she was the universe.a display of space,matter, light, darkness.i was within this universe.planets rotated aroundlike fliesand an assortmentof maggots squirmedtoward the magnetic hole;all searching for sourcesof heat, light, and final decisions.she was, after all, very bright.she controlled everythi..</description>
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			<title>landscape with the fall of griffin</title>
			<description>he broke free...from lineattached to porchand from lines...of lifehe just wantedto make a friend.fun lovingfrothingball of hairtrying to get outfrom under the lady's carand nobody can tell methat he had no soulhe was dragged multiple feetuntil his bodygave in and letthe tiresburst its organs.the tra..</description>
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			<title>tern</title>
			<description>in gentle rememberance of downy groundthe split swish of drenched soilthat has become your hand&amp;nbsp;once&amp;nbsp;once there are envelopes dusting off the roof of the sunwe shall share a twinkling gazeour digits shall meldinto combined mistakes&amp;nbsp;and the ruler of our hearts sha..</description>
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			<title>still wind</title>
			<description>own not nightnor hallowed dreamof dust within day&amp;nbsp;own not dreamsyou dreamto dreamfor windhas woncommandof your awe&amp;nbsp;spice withinwhat soarsupon your empowered thighsstrangles sightfrom myspasmodicoblivion&amp;nbsp;not a moment since youis not in defere..</description>
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			<title>taking them home</title>
			<description>what, then, of might and deliverancetriteness of self when placed in midst of tragedy?may i call upon my godswhomever they chance to beto not speak through me of deitiesof anger wrought by divisibilitiestoo tall to stand beneath gaze of truth?i was snoringalongside my predominately shepherd muttthat..</description>
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			<description>could have bartered a rally, into a dream unfoldingwithout premise.beyond wakethere lies breeze swept solace.waves whispering chortlesinto bulkhead.twilight holds nothingon rise/ebb within your peer.quotient of miraculoussprinkled with notions of simplicity.if there is nothing divinethen i have neve..</description>
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			<title>brands</title>
			<description>foundsurroundextreme steamwith happenstancedrilling fossil fuelswith entrailsof Zionmight of daymaybe of duskshelters our spinswith depleted dustbeauty of eternitydwarfed by seemingrealityof all being finitewe clutchedwith soiled nailsand discarded veils,t..</description>
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			<title>Dodge</title>
			<description>umber with your bulkof indefinite weighttherein is muscleof a nostalgic era.force upon nowhopes of yourexistencewithout rumblingquestionswho can't reachideas that thisage has decidedto leave yougrotesquely behind?yet,beneath hoodthere is concealedexpression-unbridled passion</description>
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			<title>tempestuous</title>
			<description>all week it rained.roses opposedtheir move to bloomrefrainingfrom their fragileopening toward doom,but i don't believei ever told youabout my endearingtoward the moistened grey.started, it did,in the weeks before usbefore we knewsteel of our loveor how it rustsi made a date witha stormto withstandit..</description>
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			<title>ash</title>
			<description>to thinkthat these trees push lifelessaway from them.that depletionends with an internal commandbrought to bare by a branchlonging to witness emptinessin order to replace fear, again, with hope.</description>
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			<title>dales</title>
			<description>that dales have calledleaving hum drum stalledwhere sheen is serenecloaking green with dream</description>
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			<title>freeze response</title>
			<description>when transition commencedmaroon, cobalt, tank ironcontrasts, of a shrapnel blown fromOctober</description>
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			<title>peregrine</title>
			<description>you're onto the dichotomy, my brother, aren't ya ?surveying property launching yourself onto dockscathing a three hundred sixty degree pan within six skills, and then changing originprobably printing an exposure is Star Ledger preparing to blowup my spot. after questioning him, as if i own this plac..</description>
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			<title>rat</title>
			<description>Ed Morgan hadn't seen theanimal within himself for some time.he wasn't a quiet man,most of the time he wassmettering his coffee smoked teeth with his absurdity.he was neither tall nor short.his eyes betrayed brown and the absence of brownhe was often ill-equippedwhile thinking himself over-qualified..</description>
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			<title>obtuse</title>
			<description>thrush makes helium of self.without flap, pivot, nor blinkshe consoles blanket behind herfor her blemish. Whole, then, she vanishesbeyond drywall.from distant memory of grammar school brought on by &amp;ldquo;Purple Rain&amp;rdquo;, to demands of six year old for hide and go seek wherein i c..</description>
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			<title>Cummings/goings*</title>
			<description>inspired by LVII</description>
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			<title>four and four</title>
			<description>all of these things they are the dreamthat i have stood within shine to uttertruth within this world has raised mebeauty of silent growth has set me freei have requested divinity of night beforei have demanded that it bring me promisei have bequeathed real from surreali have asked impossible of coun..</description>
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			<title>fragments</title>
			<description>you are a kingdom of towering lovewithin a fractal of ashe;&amp;nbsp;the shockdream liquidwithin a bolt from cloud to cloud&amp;nbsp;refusing to ground sincethe waterfall of life it flew from&amp;nbsp;has thundered into amist where our redemption landed.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;ipraye..</description>
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			<title>Carleton issues</title>
			<description>If I could reprimand the dayto nightfallAs I kneel and watch theclouded sky crawlWhile listening to yourvengeful spite drawlUpon such a plane, indeed, Imight sprawl.&amp;nbsp;What, if then, I were not tojust bear witnessTo your aged exercise ofegocentric fitness..</description>
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			<title>stay or leave brainstorm</title>
			<description>As if the warfare had ever set the world to spin any other way but roundly.The never forever ways in which the flow of talk would leave me as he floundered. As he sat beneath the rage of a fly by point which mattered not but for the passed down fire from the grandfather I despised with his blood/v..</description>
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			<title>alpine lookout</title>
			<description>Les Divine had woken with green eyes squeezing tears ontohis wince wrinkled cheeks. He would come to understand that the day was its ownrepeating delusion. All perspective was delusion. He awoke to smell ofstale stewed cucumbers from his landlady&amp;rsquo;s latest attempt at soup. He hadatt..</description>
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			<title>ruining</title>
			<description>Andwith that seemingly endless fell away.shadows of a once forevermorenonsense strapped to the underbelly of an attitudinal Road King. lyre hasleft him reeling. shade has pressed its mist asunder. rest of it wasnever challenge to begin with. Frozen fields wept beneath corrugatedboots of ..</description>
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			<title>screwy thoughts on tape</title>
			<description>Ifthe idea is that Jesus descended once, 2000 years ago, lived for thirty threeyears; and then ascended into heaven where he is seated at the right hand ofthe father. That he will come again to judge the living and the dead; and thathis kingdom will have no end. Doesn&amp;rsquo;t he eventually d..</description>
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			<title>Mr. Thunder</title>
			<description>sarah had finished a big exciting dayeaten all the cookiesand danced, and sang,&amp;nbsp;and played&amp;nbsp;as she hummed the abc&amp;rsquo;s in her quiet cozy roomshe began to dream of daisiesbumblebees and tulip blooms&amp;nbsp;there was a FLASH into her room&amp;nbs..</description>
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			<title>when listening to tori</title>
			<description>Just as previously iterated&amp;hellip;&amp;hellip;.The sky was nothing near silkThe bridge did nothing near a gleamThe sun was nowhere in the vicinity of ethereal&amp;hellip;.it looked like a sweaty lemon cough drop rolled betweenfogged puddles of tar&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;but &amp;nbsp;..</description>
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			<title>PPD - 1 (Silver S 430)</title>
			<description>shall the transcendentalistsdifferentiate from existentialistsby wavering fear into oblivionnone of it is but pointless agitation-for i have rendered a ballot box-an instrument of torture deceivingme into believing any votehad not been cast somewhere beforeDarwin had discovered validity of selfsun i..</description>
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			<title>wortendyke</title>
			<description>by the time the wortendyke freighthad pushed by with both diesels uproariouswith seven toolbars on her web browserand rubiesaround her fire-laden wakeshe annihilates her fragilitywith staccato revolutionsabout liabilities of others.deafening blur of suchshrapnel numbs her to hersor..</description>
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			<title>today's soldier</title>
			<description>in those days the songsWould protest to the war machinebegging to bring them homecalling out to underbellyOf beast whom breathed fire upon the charred landscapeof the rest of usthere were obvious criminalsand they weren't themstanding with their iron suitsglimmering amidstbatte..</description>
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			<title>roots feed</title>
			<description>within mustard seedthat with which i was freedgrowing embrace of faithlaying debate to wastei have tried to own nightand been leveled by plightpain, doubt, fearunderscored that i couldn't adhereto your compassioned whisperbeckoning me, from afar, to nearworld has won my eyes to capturegrace you show..</description>
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			<title>frozen start</title>
			<description>no matter where you think you areno matter size of burn or scarno matter dreams you feel you've betrayedno matter shine you deem you've delayedthere is a beauty to you no love can quantifythere is a realness in you time cannot multiplyno matter indifference caged within your skinno matter mistakes y..</description>
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			<title>but</title>
			<description>&quot;when you say i love you, there's no but.you're not supposed to say i love you, but.you're supposed to say i love you, and that's it.now, when you say i love you, i wait for the but.&quot;</description>
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			<title>recycle water ii</title>
			<description>fartoo serious, of late.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;effit all.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;f**knothingness, by the way, while we're at it.&amp;nbsp;tellit, and horse it'slackof presence would not permitittoride in on,to&amp;nbsp;insertblunts and corrosiveswheresun does..</description>
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			<title>alex ii</title>
			<description>Whatif fogknewto lift itself away?to,just, pick up its kindredandascendbeyondthe beyond tosoar instead of settle?&amp;nbsp;thisboy comes to meamidstsplendor of surreal cognitionthisgenius thwartedby a world too low to hold himwalksto ..</description>
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			<title>describe what is indescribeable</title>
			<description>he came to understand that the journey, in itself,was destination.there were forty directions each day asked to go which he rejected, ithad always been thatway.he knew Zion to be myth, and Heaven.he knew such concepts were constructed by mortals attempting to describe what is indescribeablethatwhich..</description>
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			<title>heart rate 147</title>
			<description>then i was draped under lovely lace of sheoutside Ridgewood Coffee upon sidewalk planksher feet swirled tethered rainbows before mewhich brought me toward this genuflection in thanksshe struck me with awareness upon painful path to paradise</description>
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			<title>love's reverie</title>
			<description>as you and ifrench kissedamidst twisting mistentwinedbolt blistered shinescascading shifts to twistsbetwixt our pinesi swore you had laid waste my soulcore of it had swayed toward coalyour thunder boomed upon my shoalno distance from strobe light to tolli seek back nowwith memoryreverie, howi allowe..</description>
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			<title>little big girl</title>
			<description>i am little big girlat war with my next impulsedespite your gracei'm strapped to what makes me repulsedas it dashes for beyondweight of your innocenceas it falters toward less relevanceas you drive smoke and mirrorstoward lit incensei wish, by me, you don't feel connedwhen your oceanic eyesruptured ..</description>
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			<title>page 141</title>
			<description>and for weightslicker than a fish's titwelched beyond a trifleof some poet's chortlebattered by troop movementsinto dirty gardensof dust unbaffled by ourattempts at truth, wisdom,suffrage, and suffering.dust appears not to careas it sweeps, settlesand lifts into ourfrantically assembled footwearlash..</description>
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			<title>south of Amsterdam</title>
			<description>on this, the eve before birth of frightthis tenderly shreddedshrouded nightwhere stones are waxand pleasure plightreflected candles on timesatin glow of ripples 'neath ebb lighti have built a mansion for my spiritwith an outhouse for desirea covered pathshields my strollfrom one to anotherbuilt from..</description>
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