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xo,

Queries

The beach isn't going
to come all by itself,
but the sieves
and the moccasins
and the soda pop
freezers might snare
might lead
to souvenirs from Australia
just as much
as forty
might come by itself.
No, I am not self-sealing.
Yes, maybe Mother Nature
does resemble D.
No, I will not wish
I had written
a poem by Dean Young.
I will acknowledge
that a neighbor I once had
had frogs the size of fingernails
and goats off the roundabout.

Carnivorous

Mother Nature will bite
your chest and cry
if you're not careful.
Words of advice from
one who spent time
at the arboretum,
at the back of the bus
counting the days
like bridges holding majesty
over safety and rebuilding
and over grinding underneath
El Guayabo via San Francisco
via a man from L.A.

Because You Asked For It

I am capable of finding myself
in Salt Lake City for a summer sunrise-
smoke washing the sun washing the black
falling somewhere between the people
scurrying across the city and the ones
pulling up for weeks and days..
Inside and in weeks after
there are movies and albums
that make us all call one
another and sing away
the traffic sounds. Why?
is a question and an answer.
8th grade coming back
and plants inside during the rain
and pebble-beach and backs-on-ice
and some Boston harbor
fielding fishing calls and
holding towns and a two-day
camping trip mid-September
and

Forward all mail to the forest
where the park comes to an end
because that's where we'll be,
arms open, tending an almond tree.

Maybe You're a Father Now

He must be by now.
It's been that long.

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The difference between
good and bad
is like saying goodbye

it's like ten minutes

it can be something
to do with whether or not
eyes click
or movies pop up.

a company called sunset

the morning paper nothing's new nothing to regret about this weekend or the days before tell my chest appointment to wait for better timing and then hotel dreams can breath a little more like paint on both our shoes like new tiles and groceries like driving sometimes and things like oslo or crawling

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