Purple Lakers cap,
just back,
from a family trip to Los Angeles.
Or maybe,
we had been
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I sit in a chair
that melts to nothing
beneath me. I close my eyes
because she says I can
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Keep in mind there were three daughters,
One graceful and pretty, one fierce and
gallant, one
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Binaural classics on repeat while she
sleeps and writes and eats, and
D, vitamin variety, fo
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"I may be some time," he said,
easing on his fleece-lined boots.
We laughed and clinked ou
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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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He said,
"Everyone is buying it like mad."
"And you need another 40 rolls?"
I said.
He
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Dare we invite the dreamwolf in,
to jump through our chaste window,
carry us over the midnight
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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 muse my bed
deep think to the ceiling
I hungry the biscuit tin
lazy the sofa
watch an
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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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when the morning still
brought mist and sweatshirts
hot coffee in mugs
of every shape and
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Rumor has it the lake is a graveyard, she says.
There are bones down there, tumbled smooth and
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"Sometimes," he said, trimming a bud,
"You have to interfere.
But every other time,
you simply
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It's okay to rip flowers out
and to set fire to vines,
to pluck petals off without
counting to
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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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