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Lament
… rung of light, a pregnant silence. Isn’t the after always tidier, divisible? I remember it from the floorboards, the … believed you better than my own pain; two-legged God, false prophet—  I am a Muslim. Each of your breasts a mosque …
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[I fell on an incline, talus, tibia, fibula, calcaneal tendon mangled]
… said, a yellow that made my eyes  ache but nothing thus far compares to bone pain except childbirth,  put a bullet, I …
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Of Form
… Such as my own; where chaos stands A moment abeyant to my commands And dies in signs at my finger-ends. 545-546 By Dorothy Lee …
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We Are Monica (Acrostic)
… from paper to paper. A tack never Reflects, a tack doesn’t die for truth, Expressing crisis at every new job. Maybe we … wind, song me, Move me where you will, to edge, to roots. O compass in my mouth, take me to Noon, the summer, and send … me from the cold, turn me back to August, those nights I studied the celestial. * Why is writing about her odd? Evening …
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Water-Light
… Thought draws the imaginary of the past: a knowledge becoming.                        — Édouard Glissant   The … via the Mississippi River. Nearly half of the lake acres studied in America are too contaminated for swimming, fishing, … rocks, and and and. These bodies of land and water are portals of nature. Those portals are basimbi, or cymbee, …
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Nature Poem with a Compulsive Attraction to the Shark
… Nature Poem with a Compulsive Attraction to the Shark the hive swells outside … for millennia until ours—a short tailored tenure  a blip in comparison to the shark more ancient than flora killing only to feed moving so it will not die it wants only what the sea has brined  the shark does …
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