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***
Twelve
steps to the church
front
door, forty geese
assemble
for the reading
of
the will; none will
persevere
wh..
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The
airplane
dropped
precipitously,
suddenly,
no
warning,
from
captain,
from
crew
who
flew
strapped
in,
from
..
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***
The
sweetness of a cherry pie,
odors
of cooling oatmeal cookies grind
in
his gut, the stench of fresh manure
subside..
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***
At
age six, Mother Mary was filled
with
grace; at twenty-six, she's
filled
with s**t. Twenty shots that
missed,
..
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***
In
days after there is magic,
there
is sadness and regrets,
relief
that the Sphinx survived
the
Nazi bombardment with ..
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***
From
this angle, all I see are three bananas
hanging
from the banana tree;
one
step closer exposes a fourth, hidden
behind
the..
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***
The
package that holds these cream-
filled
hazelnut cookies says they're
a
product of the Netherlands. One-
hundred
ca..
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***
Red
tulips of thin
fine
glass, pale green
stems
in
a
transparent vase;
what's
left
when
life slips away.
Butterflies
of ..
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***
That's
it, I said, and switched off
the
TV. Last night American
Idol
proclaimed another
Best
in Show.
This morning I..
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This
tube of emerald green
paint
is worthless, dry and
curled,
a mollusk shell's whorl.
What
my mind meant to paint
is
..
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