Bones 5 Bones 8 Bones 19
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a cat's eye / through the dark night
a cat's eye
through the dark night
afflicted with
the unseen looms
metonymy
eye to eye
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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 -
altar ego / blank page
altar ego
blank page
a word for bread
what species of tree
broken apart
died for this?
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an ear / at day's end
an ear
at day’s end
poised to sip
the horizon
on the brinkincoming silence
of being
afterglow
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beginning again / eyes never meeting
beginning again
eyes never meeting
wind dialogue
with rainwhile
all the timeocean
with rockoverlapping
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night terror / all alone
night terror
all alone
dream-decembering
silence beats harder
being
almost bornlacking fulfillment
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pause within a pause / figures in light
pause within
a pausefigures in light
does the gull
crying aboveshowing forth the obverse
ensure the sea's
sea-ness?in being observed
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poetry reading / word shadows
poetry reading
word shadows
the sounds of
a hand-to-mouthadding weight to
the gravityexistence
of their situation
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southern seas / hidden wounds
in the lead-up to lent the ego sets upon the narrow road leading to its crucifixion
southern seashidden wounds
El Niño beneath
the dark night's
the celestial stream
stigmata of stars
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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 -
yes / a voice
"yes"
a voice
lighter than waves
to lay all doubts
the word
to bearto rest