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Fox
To cover the material,
“trace the historic path
of a doomed train
line.”
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To identify
as
a cloth fox
puppet.
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To see your way
into
a circle of six blue flowers
beneath an indigo plateau
itself composed
of tiny blossoms –
the “hydrangea.”
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To be named.
Some deranged water
Reliable Sources
Don’t mention the universe—
that web of signals
about what?
Each shilling for
its own prospective
source.
An endless wrangling
that passes for matter.
I miss shadows
under motley pebbles,
discreet
and equivalent
as the days are
long
Running the Numbers
One
comes to a point,
a nib,
and from there
to nibble
and that obscene word,
“niblet.”
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All that there was
to say
said
and said again:
the long list
of new absences.
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My dreams are now half
terror,
half spoof;
half fever sweat,
half “Swamp
all new
tonight at 10:00.”
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