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***
We crawled
from the slime
a billion
years ago.
It seems
odd, in all that time
we haven't
changed.
Ask any..
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***
A
black mountain rising,
a
momentary summit above
the
blue of the Pacific,
the
fall and crash
water,
foam,..
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***
A
telephone call
unanswered;
a ship's bell unrung;
crabs
scrabble
to
reach safety in the surf; a black
cloud
forms
above
an ..
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It
is a miracle.
I
am not cold.
The
world is frozen.
I
am actually warm.
How
can that be?
The
techni..
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***
A
polar vortex has reached
my
marrow. I am now one
with
the white bears. Frigid water
drips
from my faucets. The pipes
ha..
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***
These
roses stink.
A dozen
in two
different shades
of
yellow;
they mock
with their
sticky
sweet breath,
roses
I bought..
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***
Well
f**k. I
really
thought we'd get through winter
without
winter
showing
up, an uninvited guest
to
our backyard
..
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***
When you travela twistedpath, howmuch unwindingdo you need,
how
many songs do you
sing
off key hoping to be
..
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***
That
is the track
of
a word.
The
poet knelt
and
felt the earth.
Hasn't
been gone long.
Whether
to follow
depe..
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***
The
starlings touch
the end of the sky
and
rise, a thunderhead
rolling upwards,
a
storm that collapses back
..
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