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20 minute mustache
I always mistook my face for less sinister. I have only one secret and in 40 seconds that number will become less than three. When I wash dishes first, I fill up the largest bowl with warm water, soap,...
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The Trapping Sessions: (Free)
(Eventually: 33 haiku about my transition.)~Somehow if I speakthe same: (do I speak the same)negative capa-bility is justa word. (Word.) I live in thatcompression. Language –do something unusualto...
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Dear rooftop:
Even though. What we were promised was cornstarch. Featuring I am all no and other miracles. Minutes were made out of east coast. Suddenly Seymore and there's a fish in your hand.An elephant has a...
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territories of folding
This cannot be another year about ___________ (unknowing). I was my mother’s daughter and then a series of days came. They were not unlike a rock garden on the dinner table. I brushed the ground and...
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latitude: perceived obsolescence: unplanned
(we lay there for months drawing backtiny muscle. and grafting an exegesis of skin.)My voice, which is the most terrible gift from me.Indiscriminately. You refuse to touch me with sound.I want you to...
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Minus antecedents: The final interrogation of no
Alright. Tell me one more time about the racecar.About how your bike is better even if it’s not more safe –because it doesn’t go that fast – but somehow you’ve shown upso far. No, no. The last thing I...
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without indeterminacy
I am heavy bored with criticism.Your new lover has a light and congenial gravity.I remember your wrists. and sing.
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elegy
I am so not myself (sometimes) I look at her.And we are never equal to the break that we bring.
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offering
A rope and then somehow it’s opposite.Cantilevered.An amalgam of pre-injury rests.
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(ir)Retrieval
* sonnet crown in progress...That _____ was born Melissa Dawn Tolbert December 24, 1974to a woman named Jeannie Darline. That in thiswe decorate almost. We mean (we relegate) we mean.That the hopeful...
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On Minimalization
(And on the more discreet notion of risk.)Do not look at sentences sideways. Do not insert commas where periods are sufficient. Do not elucidate, subjunctive, or retract. Do not nickname. Above all, do...
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(ir)Retrieval
That _______ was born Melissa Dawn Tolbert December 24, 1974to a woman named Jeannie Darline.That in thiswe decorate almost.We mean (we relegate) we mean.That the hopeful bearded face becomes a...
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A Congress of Bring and of Invisible: The Language of Heaven is No
city, in which the body is disappearing.city, in which the aorist is resurrected.city, in which I cultivate disparation.city, in which the body permeates know.city, you are rampant in the earlobes.a...
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shoulder gratitude
let that it be visibleand sooner: your hand-ing me row.and the dribbleof a belt coming down.letthat arthritic in a game-room is still gaming.weatherinconsequence, yes: hands down.
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policital and all, in glass
let there be silence. and plenty. let there be end tables. breasts. buoys.let there be exit ramps. breasts. balls.when, what essentially I made off with was your stair.like a tunnel grieves a view of...
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Dress
The plan, with you, was always easy. Plan empty andcall it open. Plan midnight. Call downHeaven when in the throat of the suffocant.Plan cigarette and call it cigarette.Call down glass on the generous...
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Thieves (for Lisa and Eve)
I am convinced that there are sounds with which my sorrow is unacquainted.That there are arms who mean moreto the body they fell upon than the handsby which they are inextricably known.What publicity...
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reclaim (written for LGBTQ graduation at the University of Arizona, 2009)
go. be like a giant, and go there singing.carry concrete and in the other hand, carry water.share not only teeth, but all the edges of your mouth.go there, and be useful, hold up a mirror....
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Edible
What was an avalanche played a fawn anddid it cleanly. I weighted. You, who fish on the flatbed, we are a parliament.The theory of perilous and the pleasure of a bootcoming down. Down addiction, down....
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Tau(gh)t
I go back to that no and I sing from it.I practice epilogue: needlethreadepi-thelium. As what constitutes mean is the variance. Perhaps I fly hollow. Into some you, then. And rest. And where will the...
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What Space Faith Can Occupy
for JC and JenOnce upon a time there was a girl who loved a girl and her laughter was a question she wanted to spend her whole life answering.- Nicole Krauss, The History of LoveI believe that witness...
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Tau(gh)t
for madelineI go back to that no and I sing from it.I practice epilogue: needlethreadepi-thelium. As what constitutes mean is the variance. Perhaps I fly hollow. Into some you, then. And rest. And...
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Crossing
for madelineWhen you hold me there are words for that.I do not remember the words for that but I remember that there are words.There are not words for when you do not hold me.I remember that there are...
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truss
to sit down, to cross the legs, to relax a little, to not know fully how to relax, to imagine the damage done by crossing, to be comfortable, defiant, distracted, to write something down, to feel the...
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June 15, 2010
for ktI agree with the strainer, upside downin the yard. There is a limit to protection.And you are coming.And I invited you.And how would we wake from anythingwithout the tiny pink hammers in our ears.
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