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After the Havens
I thought I saw you this morning in the market. You held a basket of fennel and watercress, and you plucked the best of the Brussels from a pile that lay in the inclined tray between the turnips and...
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Colossus
Light strikes blade with a whine like a dry hinge folding home, high return of a brassy chime struck to end a thing. This was never the story I meant, hands ground down in the mosses, skin to stone one...
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Schrödinger
Will the weather turn cold tonight? I’ve only leaves to burn, and away in the box with the cat is my blue Irish sweater. I’ll pack in the chill and the wondering, and the things I suppose. I’ve hidden...
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Introvert
Books describe the divide as when the party’s best: during the press of crowd and rush of voice and wine, or later, alone, with one stocking on the floor and the sink still draining out the last of the...
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Trebuchet
After the drop, the kinetic tremble through leg and wheel: Sling and careen, propulsion and threat inspired by ballast and gravity. I’m not sure which castle I’m in, which side of the siege I’m on....
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Tilting
Should have known from the shape of the key that the little door set deep in the alcove was best left locked. Its skull was subtle, worked like a smile, set like a sweep of snapdragon settling back...
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Colossus (II)
I mattered, alone on the dais, before the collapse, the fall, the hobbled horse. I mattered the way the light matters, and the sound of a sword, and smoke from a sigil. In every step in the sand, I...
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My Mind is Too Loud for This Podcast
My mind is too loud for this podcast, though I’ve lashed it down like a tarp in a storm, all I can hear is the flutter and flap of the gusts at its corners, the billow and crack as it flies up and...
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Forgetting
It started with Shasta on Twitter, so long since I’d heard it I couldn’t remember just when I forgot it existed – nostalgia for summer, antifreeze-green, poured down over ice blunted round in the floor...
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Fatigue
Dwindle-glide of an ice-blue bar or hazy dial’s engulfing glow, I hang from the desperation of fist hammered into cliff while the razee drifts like shattered cork below. I ballasted my pockets with...
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Return
You bore a gilded query and a welcome, a call to quest and a key half blade, half seed, with the barest hint toward a furrow I followed from cairn to col to buckling columns and a staircase leading...
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Stones
Alone with dust, upended tacks, and a puncture through my palm, I’m pinned in the kindergarten corner, bruised by the same stone that anchors my hem to the speckled classroom tile, thrown not at me,...
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Gone
The staircase didn’t seem to loom before, not from my periphery while I padded past its foot, left for later the second-story search as bookcases, binders, loosed leaves led like river pebbles dotting...
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Halloween
I missed the milestones turned in the turn of fall – still four years to spend before half my life ago my professor excused me from reading Dostoyevsky the morning after Heavenly Creatures and a night...
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Flounce
I so wanted to love this sunset, so many moments here I waited with the sand fleas, the whip of sea oats on my cheek in the whirling wind. But all I can consider is that dream about my mother, the way...
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