Excerpt

Yes, the tiny darkness is like that:
It comes when it wants to,
loving blindly like the mystery of God,
and allows the strange gift of touching the infant wild;
the only time there is no danger from it except that of loving too much-

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Halloween (The Doors are Wide and Open)
-Analyzation

Excerpt

Even the breath of the wide field shows;
moths limp off your porch into the fog, wet and mute.
Green and orange pumpkins pile around your peeling fence posts.
Autumn eggs like tiny, white pearls are lining the veins of the earth.

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Las Vegas
-Analyzation

Excerpt

“This city is made of money.”
Like we could pull bricks from casinos
and be holding stacks of fifties.

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Describing Paper to Future Generations
-Analyzation

Excerpt

Finally, it was made from trees, and if you think that’s funny,
you’ve never stood in a razed clearing and weighed the options;
your most beloved medium or a living forest.

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Every Viole(n)t Night
-Analyzation

Excerpt

So, then.
Those flickering shapes annointing every viole(n)t night
were your blessing; and the spirit descending on my head
was not a dove, but a bat.

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Poem for Myself in Elementary
-Analyzation

Excerpt

Is there a word for physically inactive and mentally hypersonic?
My dear, it is obscene how no one notices what you are becoming

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