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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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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Passing from the light, I glimpse
my daughter in the midnight kitchen
glow, dipping ice-cream
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Between these yellow lines,
The promise of safety
Retreats before the distraction, impatience, the
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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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The poltergeists come,
one by one,
and they do not know
one another's faces,
only the
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I've always been curious
about the identities of old statues.
The minds
behind the cool
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Sometimes, a fishhook
and a bit of flesh
are all you need
to save your baby
and
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