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Pastel Sadness

In a fatal blue fugue, she bruises the edge of an hour. She swallows the Evening’s clear cries of dark-dipping gulls flung across the sunken wound of Sunset. Her brash toes dissolve through the...

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Words Like Coins Jangling in a Jar

His meaning was sharp and swallowed, with words like coins jangling in a jar. “I’ve been out for nine days…”

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Tired Sky of a December Storm

Wrinkle of pink sun Furrowed in a tired sky- Spider web shudders A prickly-pear claw Pecking at the bone-white path- A marsh mouse crossing Tangled branches crack- Black fury of starlings soar The...

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Coughing Crickets

Gasping moonlight signals through a cloudy ocean beard. Still bodies of flies and dragonflies glint, clinging to the cool, glass skin of dimming florescent lights. Beneath an orange orb of sodium...

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“Youth is Happy Because…”

Where raindrop shadows spill On a bed of rusting leaves- A Caterpillar sleeps With lemon dreams “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty...

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Ocean Static Fills My Ears…

Sibilant words Lumber off the sea Ocean static Fills my ears The dunes shrug Cicadas throbbing The scent of distant rain Hanging in a hammock Of gauzy wind Fingers probe Like crab claws In cold-packed...

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Every Crushing Step

A humble path, furry with emerald moss and splashed in blue shadow. A shiny-backed beetle suns himself on a cold molar-sized stone, then shuffles off into a copper sea of leaves. So many roving feet...

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Spotted Only with a Magnifying Glass

She is spotted only with a magnifying glass, an animalcule with limescaled wings And a dusky face. Clinging to a breathing blade of dancing chloroplasts, she sees the fractals flash in a fury of...

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Craggy Fool

A hairnet of pink lightning Flames across glum skies Shadows saunter, charcoaling The Sea’s velvet skin October wind coos Across ruffled iron peaks The Brine percolates Each heaving sigh beckoning...

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A Brittle Wind…

Burring through scaly leaves Along the deer-stamped path A Brittle Wind begins As cobalt moonbeams Paw through knots Of cowering trees The wind wends Through strange limbs And mutilated hands-...

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