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Asphalt and Steamrain came in sudden thick torrentsAsphalt and Steam
on asphalt which ran a superheated black
through summer-baked Virginia suburbs; it barged in, turned roads into creeks, dashed off to expose those hot roads to the extroverted sun
and while we children marveled,
the spirits began to rise from those dark roadsides
what we've let slip by our ordinary eyes the misty phantasms whisk into light; pale eddies unwinding from their lustrous roots, from fingers and toes coming unshrouded and loose, cast into currents left standing shadow where we've passed by &nb
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rewindwhat road is thisrewind
that would bring me back
to quietly sit and reflect
on my own four walls gathered 'round
and posturing,
those uninvited guardian angels
that stand to protect me
from the outside voice
that I hear growing more
whispering at the windows and
tugging at doors,
she runs through my head
appealing to old primal kinship between her
and my inner side that won't be cross-marketed to
or commodified or industrialized enough
to let the old memory slip,
to lose my communion
when the water is already the wine
and we're all the body
some days I've got teeth
some days I am the meat
she'll take me back one day
and tran
by ~abstractform
stone-self-shapedYou see,stone-self-shaped
this is how it is weeping
like those old stones:
you shed no tears of your own,
but instead you lie there
facing the sky, stilled, and you behold indeed,
that there are tears from heaven, they come to you to flow through riven breaks and intruding cracks that time has dealt you.
Your own lustrated mineral purity
is laid bare by the liquid chisels. The new
chemistry complicates you, perhaps increases your market value. Invading stains sign the botto
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welcome to biggsland!
now I have to catch up on all your work- I'm really impressed so far
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