Even now I see the gifts of patient windows keeping watchas the road grows damp and the ravens gather razor beaksunder iridescent wings. Our porch light flickers oncetwice and the sidewalk’s sharpened shadowsfold up like paper stars. And stillI linger. I feel the ache of meof Death who is the spacebetween my footstepsmoving as I […]
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This beach with sand impersonating stars dead is longand all this wood has drifted farto be here out of water we don’t know how rareor how or why each has livedin forces under the speed of lightyour hands will also drift in wind to hold them a hungerfor smooth skinfeeling for a pulse from another
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Her father’s family wants everything lush the first time. An eagle’s feathers soft as rainfall, coins pouring thick as magnolia blossom, excess slicing from the belly to the shaking of the world. There is a luxury in being asked twice. The sugar cubes ignored beside the porcelain cup made from bone ashes in a process
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