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a part across from a godwit’s carbon footprint
a part across from a godwit’s carbon footprint
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a word
a word
after a word
at war
afterwards -
from Light Verse (a work in progress)
from Light Verse (a work in progress)
before light
when to be
is just thatin darkness
becoming
a candlelet there be . . .
ta ta ta
strike the flintfor now
a spark
just thatSaroyan's candle
sputtering
lighghtnight breeze —
the sound of light
on a wickthe light
that lies
in wordsa candle deifynes the darkness
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good news
good news in the ends of now
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in becoming
in becoming the loss of now
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it is here
it is here
a vacancy of sky
and now
a bird -
War and Peace
War and Peace
the other
he has a lean
and hungry lookbrutal
how we come to bury
the knivesi think
therefore it is
light at lasta slice each
of crunchy cucumber
on her eyesalone
alas alack at all
a declension of nounscoolness:
the wrinkling skin
of visionpostfixes
the lingering taste
of a deaththe writing
in the tissue fold long
forgotten