June 2011
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Cooper Lake
and the lazy bursts of violet, sloth not the televangelists shun
prelude to the blue/green/blue/green poly-humped camels.
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and as a tadpole I would travel the rim, pausing at the narrow
rivulet to greet the looking-glass dotted with pollywogs, leaving
even before the sun rose. droplets everywhere, palms and the crook
of my neck.
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one year a red/orange/blue sheen greeted us at the...
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Close Encounters
My windowless reality fringed
rough-woven curtains of sharp-blade greens
stuttered cycle of earthly yellows, amarillo, spry twigs interspersed
but the young branch with tender marrow, comes apart in strands,
permits a kink before the thin bark ruptures, not yet set
before its endless era of sunburn.
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Sometimes, between the days that follow the summer solstice,
when the nights run longer...
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Elephant Memories
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mangled ivory shafts flank the “long-tactile”,
wings of membrane thin, stretched wide at the temples,
fly-swat tail. As the grey beast leans in for a draught.
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2.
calcium dry as my mouth, ceramic sponges
a home that saw too many winters, rainy days, the tenant chained-in
brushed by an eyelash-soft prehensile taffy-thumb.
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3.
Not so distinct from the game of showing a cuttlefish a...
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Much
I can smell the tobacco on my hands and ankles. The unseen mantle of once distasteful aromas, exerting gravitational pressures on my underused epidermis marked by a distinctive tan line at the wrists and funny-bone. Atop lies the, invisible to, crust of overthought but not previously understood lawn-chair philosophies. People, and by that I mean fellow citizens of this great nation of...
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Mountain Jam
Going to Mountain Jam Music Festival!!!
http://mountainjam.com/
