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Li-Young Lee
And when, in the city in which I love you, even my most excellent song goes unanswered, andI mount the scabbed streets, the long shouts of avenues, and tunnel sunken night in search of you…
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from the coast and home
Some times, i wish for winter For storms For god’s hand batting at plated windows and thick doors The restlessness and motion
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vetted
there is one man with a wicked face, perfect and stoney and one lost man, fighting like a dictionary. there is one man who forgot all his sloppy promises and one man who hates his desire for me, but has never let it go. another man was there at midnight, scared of his own shadow…
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outting
The shadows in the park have grown long enough to reach me from distant trees. So I’ll take my body, warmed by the sun, and leave the grass to rest.
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Once Mountains
I once could tell which roads snaked to mountains Which struck out Bold and reticent, half melted in the desert’s high noon And too I could tell Once and for years Arroyos from the air River veins on valley floors This one flowing steadily That one dead now for years Missing floods and shouts from…
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Cartography
She’s 30 or so, maybe room for a few more if necessary but really she looks 42. The extra 20 lbs of blameless, tricky weight on her hidden, winter frame struggles with her parka. There’s fake fur and it slumps and twitches when she giggles. With a quiet sigh across her coffee, she hopes he’s…








