Amongst my mother-in-law's hoarded treasures,
a rusted Normal Rockwell tin
weighted down
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Like pasteboard, the seeping planks
buckle underfoot, marked easily
with fingernail or jagged
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At first, it seemed a movement of
spontaneous joy;
a pause,
a stretch of arms and hands,
a
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I don't recommend it.
You might wind up like me,
with spiders on your lips,
crawling out like
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we spent seven years
planning our route
thieved maps and charts
marked the dangerous spaces
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Your widow came in to the bank today
Waving the certificate of your suicide around;
I go
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The summers aren't so lonely on Plum Island.
It's me, the plum trees, the plum birds,
and the
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dreaming in San Francisco is like
dreaming inside a cloud
where the promises of our parents
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Flocks in flight,
Murmurations
Of rippling ribbons
Against rain-full skies
Above the
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window seat
facing forward
racing westward on rails;
every twist a next vista
the last
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With a bit of whistling and a roll of the wrist
I slipped into some rusty overalls to go
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"Now we will find
what the rest have left behind."
—Lil Green
There, not here, is
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if you concentrate
hard enough, sometimes
the fourth wall breaks—
fading just a moment
to
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A secret disclosed in art class:
the face is five eyes wide.
You pencil the extras in
and
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If you call on
me
one evening
in the city
of un-
known poets
we'll talk
not a
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Your voice, too fast, chattering,
clattering against my Self,
breaking into my thoughts,
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This bright sun peeking
over the eastern hills
seems to remind you of
the exuberant joy of
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