Tete a tete

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  the most popular of miniature daffodils   I’ve waited— seen others brighten   neighbor’s yards—south-facing beds,   low elevation—who knows what makes some hardier   early on. There’s nothing I want more   than a conversation with you.   … Read More

House

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  after “Silently and Very Fast” by Catherynne M. Valente   I was a house once      very large       empty rooms aching like teeth I knew what a house knows   of family genes in vast permutation      what it knows of … Read More

Yucca Valley

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  Light dissolves on the outskirts of town where the trees are mostly their arms, devoid of reason in a strange dream. What hides in itself in the desert? I know that I will soon. Jackrabbits freeze on the grey … Read More

Somedays

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  There is a clay house strange in a desert but no windows, no doors, people are gone no sound except bullets cracking past my ear, and then I wake up. Did I wake up? Yes! I woke to a … Read More

whose evacuation

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  the neighbors build on the brink of forest, in a few months, the house could be done or gone. watch from the field as they pour foundation concrete, then water the burn of the east garden.   between us, … Read More

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