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• through the dead of night ~ the remote conversations ~ of neighborhood dogs
• in a thousand words ~ ghost-written on blank paper ~ essay on "silence"
• basking in the moon ~ my second chance for sunlight ~ having slept all day
• vietnam vet sits ~ by his box, wipes the spit off ~ like when he came home
• forgets her name twice ~ blowing his second chance at ~ a first impression
• small boy at the beach ~ in his hand, a million years ~ of ocean pebbles
• my private raindance ~ sorrows dropping from the sky ~ into the desert
• wrapped around themselves ~ in the dark back row, they miss ~ the second feature
• he closes his eyes ~ and air tickles his palm as ~ the hummingbird lands
• still dressed as skeletons ~ long after Halloween ends ~ the trees without leaves
• cat back from the sun ~ slinks back through the prison bars ~ to warm his cold hands
• before he wakes up ~ the stars replace the lost dreams ~ the night has stolen
• dropping from a cross ~ a spider leaves his sanctum ~ starts walking on air
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