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Caution — Railroad Crossing

Caution — Rail CrossingI wait like the gaso­line tanker at the rail­road crossing.Behind me an ambu­lance screams and the red lights strobe their way into my brain. I wait for the klax­ons to qui­et, the red lights to go out, and the trem­bling arms to rise.How did it come to this? Published on The Laundry … 

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Ekphrasis on an Imagined Pastoral Landscape

Ekphrasis on an Imagined Pastoral Landscapewe dimin­ish beneath hap­pi­ness­with­out you she­con­sid­ers the unfo­cused clouds­blue­prints­mad­ness and prophe­cyrun cold­ly­past the night forest­the slight rosary of the starsy­our tree­top micro­scopelooks througha cathe­dral organ towar­dor­gan­isms whose func­tion­we have yet to dis­cerny­ou close up your glan­ceput down her atten­tion­look for instruc­tions­find only bone Published on The Laundry Line, 18 November, … 

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News – October 2021

News — October 2021Dear Joe, I am sor­ry that I for­got to call you on Sunday.The weath­er here is changing;summer is ending;tomorrow the first fall storm arrives.The trees aren’t turn­ing col­or so much as los­ing color.The ferns bend under the weight of the rain that drops from the trees.Leaves fall into the mud and become … 

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