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Deeply Mary
chase her through the dead pinedraped in her robe of nettle- pine pitch she pulls the ceanothus from deep below “those hips are too beautiful for these back woods” say the boys they want to…
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5th Wind
I am the fifth windI am here, here, and hereEbb tideDark moonI pull the roots down deeperYank with my teethHunt down sickness in it’s hiding placeStop lyingI will level the villageWearing fire for…
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medicine woman
Image © Chiara Bautista because i know the name of monsters am a monsterhands like shovelswhiptailedcan coax the medicine from the rootrhizome of sleeprhizome of twitching and perspirationmaking them diaphoreticmaking them joyfuldeer armsmaking poisonmaking…
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Night Train at Luster Gap
Where I waited for you Having taken the last train into Cheyenne Wyoming I’m in my half-priced red dress 1:45 am In a cheap motel I am perfectly groomed Silk stockings…
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1532 Rue NDongo
Massembo, DRC 1993 For Yaya Clemintine The smellOf burnt garbage and warThe compound of tires and galvanize, piles of brickRusted nails, tossed out batteriesA thin fabric blows in the doorwayYou’re seeing then not seeingA…
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Night Bird Says, Medicine in the Mud
I am a cross star woman, says I am a time thief woman, says I stand on the balanced cross, says I am neither here nor there, says I am a cloud woman, says…
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Chapter 14, Day of the Dog Star
A continuation of, ‘Wrapped in Thunder a Novel of Amnesia’ “What do I remember that is shaped as this thing is shaped? – William Carlos Williams do not become acquainted with her.…
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Intravenous Chapter, The Day Moon
A continuation of, ‘Wrapped in Thunder a Novel of Amnesia’ Cuss me Shut the windows first Unplug the guesthouse fan We can sweat this out In malaria land Can’t you see it coiled up…
