Surgencies

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yes the swallows and nobody else
yes and faster talker ghost mouths
with woodticks for tobacco eyes
yes bending light bloods
jawed on forget
baby bear headlong from
shipshape coyote stretched
like a sheet pulled on from two sides
try three we don't need no pirate hat
joke window settles to earth for
whatever a minute is when

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rabbit ear house on fire
i luv a flag there's no wind
like a leaking 7-11 slurpee blue
stiff alert as horn
relaxes unrings the bell
aloe at blood and urine on the foot top
pleat late plait fern spine arm
this one goes out to the ribs
of the pickle barrel
to the lungs
of the chipmunk now ya know
ya don't have to

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it's church let's
walk on knees
thru corn accusation
to the tinnitus of spring
cleanest song there is
vowel avowal
water smearer silver cool
the wood frogs coo too
and toads and toads
tractor train gut
o engine to any and either
ah cut i

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heart of a hand
filled with marbles
closing opens
breath with eyes
suspended like candy
wrappers in nests
and i knob a little shelter
over my heart
cupped hands
what i get
if a knot welt
grown by door
knock at knock at
song pelt buddy

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as if weather
it's spitting
neither glean neither gather
caught out in
sufficient to become the thing
and set out then ringing
like a tuning fork
swung upon the funny bone
this crisis of peace
i am what water wind can
and then i am wind

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if snoring could coil
if snoring angulates
inch male song mile
the chalkboard designed green
to put you to sleep
under moss
approach the board
abalone in yr left
write the number one
number one number number
number one tho it bends
right away there's no question
like wind at the belly
of a grass stem

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second
parentheses eyebrow upright
we opened the manhole cover
with a crow feather gesture
your head on your shoulder
you improvise an eye
tho it's more a candle flame
prison a wick is
short stay eat on down
this fire prefers to remain nameless
outside the rain wants in
to call it
so far can't
so counts itself met

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sugar shake down
moonlight scissor mirror way
leaper sires zonin in on
fresher erasure whee they
wheel a triangle thru sky
some purple daynight
there's no use for old barn absolutely at all
except to the sexy the moon
other way around
blue are you out there grey i am

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hell yes until croucher cats sing
baby bird drop please
circles too circles too
whoever the fastest drawer is
come quick dinosaur
of your faithless regard
try cute wit whales with lit fire
and rags dipped in wine|
hot rod horned at stars

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of the peepers
pip says they all just finished
a concert and loved
the show what a show
to the point of stung hands
angus agrees we
home different
widest sumac wider rain
every branch countlessed with drops
soft glass rain teeth
dawn white in each piece

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or this was gentle snot
descending the nostril
of the dear to see guest
years in minutes the moments
too good to stall out with asking
for paper the bathroom
so cold this time of year

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something like a boot
moving along the edges
of the swamp again
something like tearing
into the envelope
for to eye the yes
the yes or the no

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later last nite purr purple
slimmed from the trip some
isn't it guatemala get up
on down and around
home's a burnout on high
wind slit give
a little tickle nose
make ok sign
and wedge the breakable
o and whistle up
myrrh trot lot lot

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butterfly bandage ya stay in that purse
i command little jerking extras
come with fresh ketchup packets
no potato like a geode
no bald ballad
eye socket sop at the core

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pink when seen with green fox is
when spit and blood share
space and time foxes are
gimme exquisite afterthought
forgotten now
very few move mostly all
rock the path mime
first mountain home
under the sea a rocking horse
level useful for housefloor only
heart out and going to
rhythm the baby remembers what

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liquid hill crested laughing
navel seashell spiral headcase whorl
said in sedentary teacher voice
crooked pointer finger migrating
fox tongue some
spat and sprung reeling fire
wren nuthatch sapsucker
sharing panting pacemeat goin
speed of squint at spiritual font

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as for the fox's tongue why it pants
like a wound or impending birth
rides the heart's mind to
the fern bone metronome headwaters
where the spring pulses snakes feed
every body brings a decent scent there
water silver brushes body smells
ah lay down the dusty shade there
no must to this dusty lay by
and i'll iron mountain you with ice

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yes i have a mind to
wear nonregulation pants and footwear
at the yoyo factory
watch it those yoyos were made
on machines that also make
toothbrushes designed for dogs in songs
whose fences are jumpable

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and there are no straight lines
in nature naturally
open your notebook
to blue rain
coyote too
stokes that bent way
something about how blood
caught up on one side of the body
or attention that way this
bells the deer line is
a freaky moth
on a leash tears

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first moth of the year
pulling up from dead maple leaves
color same as these
omg omg omg
pertaining to being alive
just once this was is
and i am reaching in
the bag of chips

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and one chip is real
to my automatic hand says
o no you don't lout
like a melodramatic dead dude
in a junior high play
where they think the king is dead
but the king is not dead
i am not dead i am back
it was only a flesh wound
took lessons from a swoon possum
upset head from bad rain
i am up i rule

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way i heard it is
the fella stood ajar the barn door
like he was born right there
and couldn't choose
what to do
in one ear out the other
splats the swallow no two
and the fella's ribs balsa flyers
goes around simpler
cleaned out that jr high garbage
from veal pens to cat hotels

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and the fella's heart
stained a little already
the thing called livin
lifted to a barn rafter
tall guy never grew
out of 1983 state
semifinals nest
for the pigeon feathers
take a day to fall
caught up there late ghost smokes

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this was a basement bank meetin
of the sad sacks hitched to
2pm couch snorers
this was some lonely sunday afternoon
eventual reckless with the crossword
what's three letters for urn
in attic rat poop
plastic flowers soldier