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Writing as probing is never a new science or technique when thoughts flex like snails, crawling in trails and sloughing down a glue trace on the arrebol tiles with gold sails: There is a message on the watershed in hidden letters of fishscale that… Continue reading

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With flowers to flank its privileged placement, Paradise, above and beyond the horde, is constructed despite the defacement of a landscape in which savage hues soared: A mask with a toothless grin looks faceless as it’s tacked onto the collective … Continue reading

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With a whetted whistle to pierce the air, I begin to cut the gentle fabrics that breeze between me and the single chair that sits in the woods before the sap leaks: Enter the house at the end of the wood; coax on each light unilumined for years ; … Continue reading

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I know that my dreams are alive and well when I look out and see the yellow flames, dancing in the shadows of the wall, tell of the spirits in our corporal frames: They stay with us like light lingers at night, resting on threads spun by other sen… Continue reading

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How does one bring the truth out of oneself when smiling faces play games on concrete and vanity seeks to couple itself, when time fuses into eyes, hands and feet?: The eye is a charm on a medallion; the golden cataracts ripple upstream; there are… Continue reading

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The internal horizon is the most expansive; its inside-eye insight flails across form and floods into the stretched coast where castles are pitched with Masonic pails: I throw mango pits from the balcony, from the Eye inside the palm of my heart, … Continue reading

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If sleep evades me, then I’ll stay awake and dream of the utensils I once used to pick and poke the peaks and pikes I’d make out of flush air to feed my blood suffused: Little teaspoons you could wash with a wish, and two-pronged forks that you ga… Continue reading

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Amongst the hollow shades dressed in ash, blue, the moon hangs down like a thirsty molar, waiting to pounce on the gelatin glue that coheres in dead cow bones’ ice collar: No one’s there to hear it but the plague, blue as the darkest day floats ab… Continue reading

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Plastic air ducts release the sibylline tension that leads to crows’ feet on the eye, blanketing the space like old nicotine in the pre-ban eras of the bar-sky: That is, the gray horizon is stunted, boxed in by the wooden musculature of ashen live… Continue reading

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The turquoise blue scales of a crocodile so immense that it stretches beyond swells arches its chopped back an infinite while, as the sands turn themselves into seashells: That is below. Above, the bugs flock in sparks, reversed, attacking the bul… Continue reading

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