After a while,I am tired of trees.Not the woody-armed entity,bigmouthed and knotty nosed,that watches over our home.Not the longstanding gatheringof […]
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My homeland speaks
in tongues. Gone too far
to roll back vein and gristle.
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Day seven,
warm rains still come,
speckled deer restless
and asking to nurse,
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We hadn’t known she could scream.
Glass shattering wail
through slats of a muzzle,
two techs holding her down,
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Or I could write about white-tailed doe,
baby of the family still trying to suckle,
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I stumble into it, on it,
living room jumbled,
Lego under my foot—
dark because someone
actually turned off the lights.
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Once, I killed a fish.
More than once, if you count
the 22 goldfish I accidentally
overfed before the ick took over,
Sometimes, this is all I need:To sit, secure, with my palm on the throatof day. Press lightly on its pulse.Breathe
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favoring neither leg, nor whip, nor the hushof cajole (control)simply a horse whinny to make a country better than it
It begins with, “Don’t you believe in company loyalty?”
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We clutch a bit
now for sleep
through the night,
choose sharper tipped
verbs, phrases,
questions of status
quo, but are handed
cliches
It’s complicated, really, it began so long ago,
while bent over a bin of gourmet ice cream, scooping
it out for a customer: “Don’t you believe in company
loyalty?” And I had to tell him, no. “I am not loyal
to groups,” I said. “I am loyal to people.”
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