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  • I Can’t Tell If the Light Is Whispering “Loss” in My Ear or Imprinting Darkness on My Body

    At the last house,

  • I Decided to Weigh My Head

    Was it really as heavy as it felt?

  • I Dreamed of Obama on the Night of His First Election

    He stirred the coals of my dwindling campfire. We were alone. Blue tendrils of smoke punctuated the Mesozoic haze

  • I failed a bird today

    a House sparrow. I had to look

  • I Had a Cheerful and Gentle Dog

    I had a cheerful and gentle dog.

  • I hitchhiked through Harrisburg once: night and some light dislocating, | A self beyond herself singed by the stars, fundamentally | Not the violent deaths that follow you around [if you were black] but the slow

    I hitchhiked through Harrisburg once: night and some light dislocating,

  • I Like to Tuck a Leaf

    of some bright hue, say burgundy mauve,

  • I Offer This Container

    Monkeys of fresh rage born again—

  • I open the windows.

    What I wanted

  • I Was Reading the Sunlight, I Was Planting the Words on this Page

    I know why Cicero says

  • I was trying to weigh darkness

    I was trying to weigh darkness how much does darkness weigh

  • I Watch My Neighbor Watch Porn Movies through The Kitchen Window & Moonflaw

    while I wash the dishes, the back of his head propped