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***
(after
A.R. Ammons)
In
every silo
the
bottommost
grain
is
filled with
self-loathing,
buried
there
beneath
all those tin..
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***
The
package says
Family
Size,
a hundred
and twenty
brown and
tan cookies
sandwiched
around
a dense
..
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***
Back
from Paris after visiting
her
half-brother and his wife,
my
daughter brought me
a
gift she’d bought,
..
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***
I’ve
known a few women
named
Sharon and one Laura McGrath.
This
girl was Karen. We met
dealing with our
mental ..
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***
I should get me oneof those diesel-burningbehemoths with leather seatsand a hundred-thousand unused miles lefton its odometer, provided..
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***
Like
a snake sheds its skin, the tamarack
loses
its
gaudy golden grandeur,
and
stands bare on the toes of Lake Erie,
hissing
..
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***
Wade
with me, Divine One,
stand
above and slightly to the right --
the
light there better for jettisoning
smelly
old hab..
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***
It’s
only when that snake, the tamarack,
strips down, and mud has filled the bog,
beliefs have become leather goods
lef..
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***
It’s
only when you’re required to reach,
and
reach deeply
as
you dare into the bottomless well
to
draw wat..
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Haibun
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