September 2015

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nature lover

with the windows closed

the screensaver

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copulanded genitivals

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orgaseismic knee-tremblor

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climacteric change

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À rebours

old fossils heaped up

on hot coals

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dark energy

summing it all up

the name grasped at

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everything!

an atheorist

strings it along

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there! hear it!

line breaks voicing the void

within me

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petal fall

I too am becoming

not being

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without refuge

the other you are

is still me

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for H. Gene Murtha (4th September)

final straw

we draw the dark side

of the moon

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a free-floating comma eats roots and leaves

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seminal night . . .

salmon thrash upriver

by the stars

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eluding the names

they bear

my ancestors' stars

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undercover

of paper-mâché dreams

of family

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undercover

paper-mâché dreams

of belonging

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your silence

after the universe

no longer could

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speak memory!

the hush of first love

awaits your words

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tower-fall—

big brother seizes

his cue

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words of war . . .

a prayer wheel

stages

a revolution

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recalling 9/11, drone bombings, Viet Nam, Hiroshima, Pukerangiora .........

	dead silence . . .

	and still the circus

	goes on

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spring gloom . . .

the seeds once sown

still to die

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(for Alan Summers on his birthday)

on waking

a candlelit drama

centre-stage

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at wits' end

descendants of our now

sift through debris

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windowed moon:

with two of everything

the pauper's thief

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homeless sky—

a shore-borne child dies

to free will

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crescent moon—

intelligence sources

swap kill lists

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the clarity!

dawn awakening

a nick in time

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avant-garde dogs my words neither gnawed back to bare bones

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post-literate decapitalation of conSumerian scripts