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UltraViolet Night

I awaken to pee, pass the windowin its wide-eyed state: too bright.Could be a spotlight that beams new films, except this skytracker doesn’t rove. The light is steady, ultraviolet.  The dead tree, tumbling shrubs, picket fence – all caught in the trembleof their … Continue reading

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Aghast

I’ve been aghast these many monthsthe months bunch up, like a patient upon a tableanesthetized, on half-burned grass, aghast again, at August’s end So many months with broken breath, now snot rags, ragweed,wheezing; the peeved grass,having lost what was naïvealso clotted in a sneeze … Continue reading

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USHA

All lines of the poem arrive, perfect in itself except that it needs to be written.  The gestalt in a swift and complete vision.  Start.  Where.  So many words crowd the mouth. Also tongue-tied.  Vision – the Puritan town made worldly.  Sunshines on it. The clapboard café.  Iced … Continue reading

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It Poured Without Mercy

Friends came for dinner, but nothing made her change her tone.  A steady strained B minor.   The dogs laid their drooling maws on her thigh.  First placid snow, then rain, like silent glistening stringsOf a harp. When did rain become opaque? Gentle no … Continue reading

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