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Old Ahab’s Leg
Lugubrious soliloquies—audient stars… Words like century-legged centipedes march across bridges of syntax for whom the bell tolls to oblivion— still he…
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“Go lay down like the dogs do,” she would say in mild exasperation. Soon he would be back, tiny toddler tugging at her apron. * She would pluck hens…
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To Not Pray—Yet…
to not see—yet to know—shameless hamlet… to want not—yet to must… to not go—yet to go…sososo…slow. * to infinitize not—yet to god—poker joker… to slip…
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Worlds of Purple
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Time Capsule Buried in a Doubtful Past
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The Big Unreveal
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If
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The Days They Pass So Quickly Now
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Crossing the Continental Divide
Slouching Toward Parallax
stained glass—opportunity—browser… * mountain trout—instant media—consciousness… * cartographic—cryptographic—major minor… * precipices—emotional…
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Whale Eyes
a riddler’s blubber
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Making Hay
inexorable orange balloon sky— implacable fierce noon light— strewn stalks of new mown hay… late May cut and dry… royal lady beetles hold court…
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More or Less
1. more matters more—then never more—never takes all time… more over never—matters more or less—then never ever’s arrival… 2. more countless things—then…
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Iron EEE
“Irony… it’s such a waste of energy…”
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Holes Black
Jayshree’s Experiment
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