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one more?

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As if you
Your neverchanging
Self —to under
—and glowing wonder
Ing reflected incandescent
String of patio-christmas-bulbs
—Stand, were staring
Off and sharing:
'Just— so very
Very claustrophobic
Stoic, steadied jaw set
Rigid anaerobic
Arabic something on
Painted on cement
Where the light was
Impeded and meant
More than it was under
Stood to mean

Going to dump this. A critique would be nice, but not necessary. Feel free to contribute poetry— discuss &c.

I made a false step
And faltered
Bread and breath falling
From arms and about
My face
Saltwater lace
Crusted on my calf

And the birds
Knowing I to blunder
Did congregate for
Bread and Saltwater

>>1841627
i don't know if i like it or not. thus my conundrum

5.

Into me ra-ther-than to me/

I, listing toward a sun-sol/

Pian-sist, fictional, see/

Playing on the radio—dial/

End—less than perfect: /

Me. In my books andneck’t/

in or into you-or your/

spine. We laid on the floor/

fo-ur an ho-ur/

talk-ing but/

not-so-much say-ing/

anything/

no advice?

3.

Toward some two-word answer/

“And Sir, is this real?/

And is this how you fe-eel?”/

So forth and so,/

Forth you and I go/

I— at the car and her wheel/

you and car-skirt-torn, tearing in door/

Tear-ing your cheek, you sunk on the floor/

tea rings on desk-tops, napkins, notes— no more/


Two Wards: you, and I/

Go. Your’s separate, sane, same medicine./

Mine muse-i-call/

Tor-ment. Torn;/

Meant something af-ter-all/

one last bump