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“Ghosts canvassed the neighborhood until we gentrified the departed.”

“They never knew each other but now I connect them like a bowstring.”

“He could make me famous with trespass.”

“I have…driven into a night’s percussion looking for something to empty.”

“I wonder if I could be so vacated by loss”

“How do you know what you have a taste for if you’ve been told to never show your teeth?”

watched cemeteries get fat / on his friends

my father, who marched against the war, / stepped around a uniform by getting a master’s / degree,

a spider, dangling like a proposal / from the light

“a fallen night’s worth of first in her face.”

“I can no longer tell
the season by what collects beneath us.”

“until they have
become ravenous with want,”

Every nightfall
is a black they can’t murder.

I am reminded of what can outlive me.

picking the wild from each other

Not every morning is made from
God, so it is left to me to improvise

I never
know what windows are worth
destroying.

There are no people among
the macabre, unless you count the ghosts.

"Is a baptism any ocean that killed the last you?"

"I was once...ground will take"

This is why joy is so important!! to have and to feel and to see!!!

"Have you ever been dying of thirst to discover that you are the drought?"

"Let me be the monster if it excuses me of malice."

the woman was too stunned to speak

"She does not know that I do not know how to tell if a fish is in pain. I only know how to kill one. I wish I knew more about what can bend,"

OUCHIE!