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Death Valley Epistle
Continue reading: Death Valley EpistleDear ancestors, I have transgressedthe boundaries of your dreaming.I have seen a place so parchedmy body cried outon behalf of the land. I have rued the brittle shrubs,mourned the rabbits with parasail ears.I sobbed over drought-rats and skeleton sheep.I wept for the coyotes and their guile,grieved the ghosts of twenty mules. I stretched my laments…
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Superficial Nerves
Continue reading: Superficial Nerves1 — She held a bouquet of cumulus cloud2 — near this drizzling late afternoon, 3 — on the soft arm4 — draped with hyacinth.5 — I am there; in the there, as if your house, your bedroom your skylight your body 6 — is with me7 — persistently ignited,8 — not with the unfurling of hues as if9 — we…
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On the death of Toni Morrison
Continue reading: On the death of Toni MorrisonI will leave this place for good reason in my urgency you’ll say I was a dream and I was asleep before I love you our ancestors were still things in this place demand my color like blood around a loose tooth I can pull myself from it allow me to hunger my belly is…
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We are us
Continue reading: We are usWe find creaks in the floor, dirty dishesjust so you can wash, and I can dry. Don’tneed blankets, we set the sheets on fire. Light the night with animal eyes. Chainthe door and polish the tiles. We drive like spacemen, expose virgin film, tarand feather the poor, poor cats. We giveconcerts; I play the typewriter and…
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anacreontic scrawled in dior addict fuchsia pink on fair skin in alice, TX
Continue reading: anacreontic scrawled in dior addict fuchsia pink on fair skin in alice, TXWhen the clouds roll in I grab the keys andput outside in a corner hershirt. Still crackles and buzzes like a cattle tank, hermakeshiftrig inside its corrugated enclosure watched over by the twoanonymoussingle mothers. I walk for an entire night, progressing,filtering through her shirt therig and ancient blueprint. And one anonymous motherand small package of…