Monthly Archives: September 2012

mist fills the shadow of the earth

this deep shading heavy with singing crickets and scents of summer drying coriander crushed under feet though they walk gently and I whisper sing of simple things the ordinary stretched across the longing universe resonating and echoing it and somehow … Continue reading

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dying men can’t swallow speeches

dying men can’t swallow speeches or drink hope and your words will not bandage their bleeding– they need something real

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September heights–grass

my braided grass hair will dry and snap to its roots– no warmth under snow

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there are leopards in our bones

what is human builds. there are leopards in our bones, hyenas in our throats, growling & now laughing tornado spirits spin small midnight circles in ripening cow corn behind my house. i want to choose symbols for us past 30-minute television channel … Continue reading

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Originally posted on eulonia country:
i run to make the fire sign to be chased by a hundred years of dissolving bone beads in a government glass case on display somewhere in Alabama. i go to find the First-Coyote-Made-From-Water inside…

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September heights–creation

a bang or a shout shaped everything we are now– was it god or chance?

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once the dust clears (for RGH)

the house you built still stands, shaken but unbroken the rooms you nested within then drifted apart inside wait here, the other side of pretending for you to shed, finally the character you learned so well in gesture & inflection practiced until … Continue reading

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