In Case of ________ Pull Handle

if there's fire break glass
but for leaking gas break wind
utility tips

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Outside Joke

in the other world

just upside in from this one

desrever si ukiah

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Transit Station

and in the end we
step into the picture frame
woodpecker echo

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Tuning Fork

a camaldoli
referee signals touchdown
silent god whistle

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The Hour of Flower Power

the sixties never
really went away did they
asked the president

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Analog Antenna

you know it's coming
you hear it on the bright wind
clattering hoofbeats

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Trail Sign

the morning after
the separation begins
let the dead bury

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Reverse Translation

each person whispered
the message to his neighbor
god's tattooed left hand

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A Close Brush With Life

call it passing strange
to find after all these years
the fountain of youth

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In Headlights

a sense of something
precedes me everywhere
probably nothing

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Vapors

just last evening
from the weatherman's warning
chance of ambience

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October Mist

nearly halloween
and the zombies are restless
stephen king's backyard

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Paradigm

a glimpse of gustave
and the still of seraphim
quiet encounter

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Golden Orb

the best tales were told
when the world was black and white
once upon a time

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Tuffet

before you get too
relaxed and comfortable
lend me your ear lobe

 

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Onederland

fire dance on one side
cool breezes on the other
circular seasons

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Be Still

the earth knows herself
as a small pocket mirror
in god's back pocket

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Tune Up

conductor taps for
beethoven's tenth symphony
tuba glissando

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Flicker

to you is given

a mandelbrot universe
box of new crayons

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The Color of This Story

they put on a show
with a cast of ten thousands
amber sunglasses

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Carrot

the blackest soil
conceals the brightest colors
chinese firecrackers

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Jukebox

ear worm in my head
makes my feet feel like dancing
playful parasite

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Vestibule

late last afternoon
i heard an old proposal
from life a new death

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"Get up and look at yourself in the water."

He rose and looked at himself in the water, and there was not a grey hair on his head or a wrinkle on his skin.

"You have tasted of death now," said the Old Man. "Is it good?"

"It is good," said Mossy. "It is better than life."

"No," said the Old Man, "it is only more life.—Your feet will make no holes in the water now."

"What do you mean?"

"I will show you that presently."

-George MacDonald, The Golden Key

The Golden Key

what does it open
in the land where shadows fall
mossy and tangle

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Just After Dark

Beneath the perfect circle of the full moon a fog rose and made its way through the field filling it and drenching it spilled over the whole farm as he watched and onto the frame of the kitchen door and the old hand against it. -RR, The War

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Sarah of Lee

lord byron and keats
could pen no better sonnet
my new england pearl

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Open Window

the sun came shining
just before we disappeared
cloud of unveiling

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Elevator Music

the freed soul rises
to untethered atmospheres
equilibrium

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Release

balloon messages
with the keys to the kingdom
celebrate her home

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In Hand

all i ask is this:
give me everything you own
to own everything

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Divergence

we left eden once
believing we could return
no trespassing sign

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