Poetry
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Untraveled Orbits
Palm trees swish the edge of our hearing, too close to the air for any real communion. Water lips our toes, withdraws. Moored boats, like ancient spearheads, stand vigil against the sea....
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a basement birthday party in manitoba, 2006
i offer to put aside my brownness if no one else will mention it, like a schoolyard trade of mediocre packed lunches, a promise that everyone will benefit from this lying for...
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In the future you are still here
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Day 38
And now the rain is starting. It doesn’t have to mean anything more than the pavement’s gone wet. If you were a flower you’d be happy right now. / What was that...
Outside the Window, a Kite Show
Ambitious boy chases a kite—reaches tries again, squats down and jumps half-a-foot in the air, the tallest he’s ever been. Kites like dreams aren’t meant to be caught they dance slow, close...
I Intend to Outlast
I am not the same machine which came rambling off the conveyor belt, hugging the bolts & wires spilling from her vivisection. I’m last year’s model with a sleeker, softer system of...
Overpass
On the overpass above the QEW, / we dangled our wishbone arms over the green / metal rail. Cars coursed like blood in the lanes. / Your skinny shoulder against mine made...
Jet Lagged
My mother never went outside / something about the sun, her skin / so I studied sacred geometry / and pedaled our personal ozone / round and round on my banana-seat /...