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I Masturbate Then Pray to God
… light laptop light graphic light  leaking liquid crystals frosted red-green-blue  chromatics throbbing until I … I masturbate  then pray to God after the shame-hate-spiral comes  like a call I deny I send the voicemail to my chest … to find unmitigated pleasure like when I fly I fear  I will die every time and my therapist tells me to accept  this …
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Still Life on Mars
… will bear in the red air. They  don’t. Before the snail dies (and it dies in “One Mississippi”) the peaches liquefy,  the grapes, …                         We paint it  anyway, going slow to compensate for our  ridiculous gloves, stiff necks, the dim …
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Chrismata
… a well of fears? No ordinary rule applies because you’ve died already, died and died, as fresh annointings—salt, baptismal rain— become the ritual made new by moving on and moving through. …
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My Dear Love
… stars, My dear love.” “You and I, my dear love, Shall never die, never die,” “Not again, my dear love. Lie on your back and hark …
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Scenes From a Documentary History of Mississippi
Scenes From a Documentary History of Mississippi   1. King Cotton, 1907 From every corner of the photograph, flags wave down the main street in Vicksburg. Stacked to form an arch, the great bales of cotton rise up from the ground like a giant swell, a …
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