Retired Models
a brakelight flutters,
rose petals in the wind.
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Go
some weaknesses perch,
and stay to be seized.
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the gorgon’s naught
she cuts the diagonal
serenaded by car horns.
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Early
a red rake hangs from a ladder,
grinning at the leaves.
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Fields in the Day
bird-shadow made small by distance
flits across a low wall.
something in the color
warms at sunset.
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Trashpicker
his tweezers pluck cherry cans.
floating, the delicate evening drips
boulevards of gold and heavy oil.
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Townsend
under sundark snow,
our town’s rooftop ceramics suture
shadow-warm diamonds.
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Ph.D
the clock is dead.
the words blur into ink trails.
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Continuous Programming
the television plays football
to an empty room.
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Apparitions
why, if hairs be wires,
my mind shall netted find
no peace in tender sleep
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