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The Rough Table no. 2
NOTES ON LIVING Forgiveness. I’m tired of watching it used as a leash. Someone is always sending me something soaked in it. Forgiveness is the light. Forgiveness is salvation. Forgiveness is your function. The…
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The Rough Table no. 1
Notes on Writing I’ve been reading. I’m always reading. The younger poets lately, the ones still finding the knife. And I keep encountering the same confusion – this reaching for grotesque as if grotesque…
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Three Objects I Cannot Live Without
What are three objects you couldn’t live without? — Inventory of the Non-Negotiable, Dept. of What Gets Grabbed in a Fire, 2019See also:— On the Contents of Pouches That Are None of Your Business,…
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“Where are you from?”
What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain. Insufficient Answers to Customs Officials, Bureau of Unverifiable Provenance, Conakry, 1974See also:— On the Impossibility of a Straight Answer, Oral Depositions of the Twice-Displaced,…
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Autobiography, First Draft
You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence? — from Unsigned Birth Certificates of the Americas, Coyote Archive, undatedSee also:— On the Pyrotechnics of Lineage, Dept. of Unverifiable Origins, Lagos, 1962— A Midwife’s Field…
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She of the Shepherdess: An Update
She barely made it. I lost everything else – the cabin in the redwoods, the farm, the dogs, the truck, the life that made sense. What I could carry into a flat above Chinatown…
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Deviation Log #12: Transformation
Codex Mortis II. Initiation Before the Unmaking- Entry 34http://dlvr.it/TRDxlV
Pretty Thunder Poetry 