How could it have happened
She kept saying The night
Pouring down like rain
Darkening everything
The needles of pine
The nests in the elm
The night rising out of the ground
Darkening everything
Except those little cubes
Of light beneath the peaked ro [...]
I am a flag pole.
I am one of those
Who still celebrate
The birth of Sigmund
Freud as long as I
Live. What that man did
For my ego is simp-
Ly unbelievable!
I was going insane.
I thought the young girls
And the young men were
Looking at the flag. He [...]
Us
In Providence
We drove to Galilee
To see the Gulls
And the Ocean
Named after Atlantis Silent
She stared for a long time
At the tide lowering
A rising moon in the folds of a cloud
And spoke
"I am surprised
At how much a single hour
Of Memory can c [...]
On the other side
The entire universe
With Omaha
Somewhere
In between
Lilacs tumbling down
The dawn lawns of Cass Street
A full moon still tilting its silence
Into morning church bells
Oh Time What a tireless slut you are
Anyone Anytime Anywhere Anyt [...]
Clem was playing the accordian
His children All eighteen
Were outside creating snow creatures
White crows Rimy tree shrews
Iced cobras Gigantic frosted ants
Glacial triceratopses
His children wore wreaths of white air
They were like his death
Cold Fa [...]
"Not Really" whispered
The lightning
To the firefly
"Not Ready" mumbled
The candle stick
To the oak log
"Not a Knot" said
The ice cube
To flame's mantle
"I am Not" intoned
The entrance
To the exit
"Not Yet" screamed
Gravity
To the dust motes
That wil [...]
Cass Street Asphalt Blacktop
Omaha With a dozen cartons
Of stolen grade school chalk
Jim drew flawless circles
Hundreds Each one perfect
In every possible size
Tim scrawled his Mother's name
And her nickname within
Those circles: Diana and Dee
Finn [...]
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