buttons & the alphabet

scream away. indicate approval— .
at night deer come & graze on my bed.
writing translation shift postcards, leaving, estrangement.
books on the coffee table prescribe conversation.
I cannot afford insignificant. let us remind one another
of inspiration, of completing our sentences, of writing
legibly. thread & islands. boots & castles.

I often feel like an orphan.

incognito

shake the martini in Memory of the road & Spanish olives

[today there is a yellow butterfly in the garden & everything is dreadfully calm]

add hypothetical disarray.

[enter the art gallery]

primary colors & a dragon’s gaze

[refuge Pleiades]

history appears in the guise of an introduction

[unravel civility]

less than a century

maps & canvases

feathers & pens

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the goldfish is in flight

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mirrors reflect happiness

if only erased

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knowledge transforms

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follow the water

the details are in the trees