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Poetry

Only one night we watchedthe full moon remember the tops of the trees,

It was by accident.Walking in Mexico CityI saw a poster about a reading

the men are all heavier and balder

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After the first period,the first bra,your hand heldfor the first time,

Teach me again how to hold glass. I have forgotten the gentle touch of your words.

Remind me how glass is like a river, how to slide the cutter along the line we've made together, having measured twice.

however mother the morning always from the mind, how every glamour misrecords the ripening with munitions, first to do the work of others, however our colleagues arpeggiate the palace we have always loved

with kelly it is estuary, almost a carmen sandiego kindof wariness, cloistered if not unrelenting, a heat that hardens to the point of the spear. one could almost agree to the ural mountains

The world resembles a cuttlefish changing colors And shimmering. —Arthur Sze

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