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On Storm Day
while diversion
rebuked its weathered breath
a lukewarm seat
spins inverted
across an arboreal replay
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neon feathers dream
a late-waking lassitude incumbent
past a breaking dawn
that bled new platform laminate
repute imperiled the passion-dead
version repeating delay the storm
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plaster invasion tissues
grate a ductile reprimand
impaired awnings flare
shrieks of metal shred
through fronds of palms
on polyrhythm winds
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the fashion imbued
cortical dismay with critical heat
unclaimed sutures arm
the threat with a cross blown wind
Farming Out
tractor animals
knead the landscape
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beggars past due
seek privilege pronouncement
at the diamond core
a heart freed from animus
occult as a true tanker fetish
enumerates the night’s felt heat
against a fenced enclosure
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surrogate merchants
experience for sale as rent
a lonesome purpose less applied
a memory
written in days to come
undone
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on land whose cattle bleat as sheep
What Was There When There Was
a casually cure-all bandana fixation
branding no cultural fritters allowed
needs coral deportment proceedings
to strike up a mannered stiletto band
posturing brambled doubloon regrets
molded blue as a stochastic holding
the golden gamblers bet the oddly
discursive fundaments a revelation
for the house indulging the scored
privilege tanking under loose gesture
intended to refute button smashers
where their velcro lives fix the most
pandering attachments to suitcase
vouchers underscored the data mix
when solarium tenets decried vulgar
focaccia enclaves kneading help
rising from a context void of tomato
clearance receptors or roster checks
encumbered pestilence retractions
center on remedial clairvoyance sales
folded away from voyeur-toned flesh
inhabitants marked for regurgitation
spill crying milk across tabloid crowns
while stationary mixtures purified all
tablet scars molded around billiard
scraps labeled eight-ball modem
fries encapsulated dowager bars
in fat vacuums packed for breathing
captive intention gasses outwardly
consumed with traction pits enacting
bitter resumes achieving impact
of vapor premises an under-reaction
stapled to vests short on tact or rayon
or fact imposed on ritual fur packs
ripening millennium harvest implants
before the best promises break back
porcelain reaction follies at a cubicle
onslaught left to mark its own deletion
cresting against halcyon breast bouquets
as a managed entry-level position slants
vertebrae four-fold across plier heads
open-jawed for inanimate nutrition fests
or a slackened buttress fortune waived
goodbye to all that matter of factoid
presence as an absence gone missing
Waking It Up
a concise detour
normal deathbeds added
on every step the donkey head
spit its low compendium murmur
distaff added for trance effect
a spindle that forced concern
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returning emblems
steel their fate behind rudder claims
no clamor left yearning
when their ferocity avails
defective padding bands
that source their coarse pursuit
beyond a modular stirring
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manifold statements
fuel omissions when tanked
élan believers thrive
on gases laughed
when glad-handing near friends
Rebranding the Cavendish
an amphora cadenza
renounced its mercurial grommets
when boring plenary futures
proclaimed new furor
to sea urchins pounding
cataleptic to shore
amorphous venereal anecdote teasers
upended the untamed muting
reversing the mores that lessons teach
while the breached anomalies
straddled through epiphany gardens
before their factored henchmen
could replay the gardening fruition
search among the mounting pocket
lessens that teach the more
Provisional Certainty at the Counter
broken pizza futures
cut loose their enamel
panels imperil repair
figurines tarnish
worn aspirations of the emblematic
brought to a drifting shore
despairing where minimal
resounding calls a castoff
last given
enema tokens when redressed
no forwarding
to the next address
no token circuit
linked to channel
garnish with cheese
splicing dramatic vinyl
isotopes gouge the fury
easy as infusions portend
conclusions remain, pending
Racking the Spices
a scream
for better paramecia
scrapes
the toothless shore of a begging sea
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vindaloo purchase restored
the hyphen-danger risk renewed
wagers bet across dried water
no candle left to light
the shoreline window’s slow death
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the bored dream
spice and wet flavors
whether the dice cross on relay
or legless rumors
withholding their master's ease
in the rail booth
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cells divide enigma
leaving clarity or search
for other
to flavor the pan’s burning oil
