tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16363649490170254702024-03-16T01:49:12.638-04:00Life at Willow ManorTess Kincaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04889725786678984293noreply@blogger.comBlogger1311125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1636364949017025470.post-34678263353123057802015-08-10T15:43:00.002-04:002015-08-10T15:43:14.163-04:00Ignition <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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two guards at every door.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wrap me tight <o:p></o:p></div>
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where the strangling is clean <o:p></o:p></div>
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and silent, since when I kiss,<o:p></o:p></div>
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it will not be as a sister.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You have seen my complete dossier.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I would have made a great man,<o:p></o:p></div>
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but I am a woman, <o:p></o:p></div>
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subtle but effective.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Do not toss me, deranged, <o:p></o:p></div>
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in your landfill;<o:p></o:p></div>
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it is more palatable to give <o:p></o:p></div>
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me something rich <o:p></o:p></div>
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and strange, tribal,<br />
like a Viking funeral.</div>
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tk, from my chapbook "Unpressed"<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">Thank goodness you found me -</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">from a homesickness,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">I didn't realize was for you.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">You kissed the sleep from my eyes,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">to
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">dispassionate,
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">They
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">linger
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standing longer than anyone </div>
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Alpha and Omega. </div>
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The way I look up </div>
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expecting more than afternoon.</div>
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Crossed paths foreshadow</div>
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Cathedral-worthy.</div>
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Patience! Twenty
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Overexposed geometric staircase.</div>
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And just outside those massive doors:<br />
You. Browsing a
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">sift through rubble,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Clementine!</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Can't take everything, darling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Just a few. I pack it
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">labeled "Initial Boom".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-size: 12.0pt;">Gradually decompose,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">fertilize a second chance <span style="background: white; color: #181818;">―</span></span><br />
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manner. Theirs is not for tasting </div>
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the white of an egg, but predatory, </div>
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sponged and purged, rubbed </div>
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Why trade in such certainties?</div>
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easy, as water off a duck’s back,</div>
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salting icy roads instead of tears.</div>
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It’s just a scratch.<br />
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how a neighbor summons children</div>
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Unabashed wooing. </div>
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Run. Feel
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Should I leave by back door or front?<br />
Persistent pipe. <i>O! Come.</i></div>
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Reined in like a well-bred stallion.</div>
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Looking for certainty in his eyes.</div>
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She seems brash next to him. </div>
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Easy. Not
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Smiling diamond in Pegasus. </div>
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Riding velvet. </div>
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We worship the contrast.</div>
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Hold on to the backs of our seats.</div>
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Weightless. Milky.
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Compelling nebula.</div>
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Soft and hard shooting stars.</div>
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Constellation too good to be true.<br />
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beautiful lines is "billow</span><span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">―</span><span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> the poems start small, and before you know it, they're
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intimacy but of immediacy. Her eye, her
insight, miss little if anything. She has perfected a succinct style that
reveals an experience as it happens, as it gathers meaning. These twenty-six
poems evoke a web of discoveries, the way a life is lived, the metaphors of a
poet's many lives poured into the reader's own. Ms. Kincaid's work offers a
glimpse into the digital age, as well as into our enduring, more common
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Thing</i> Tess Kincaid goes "to the edge,/to the door between either and
or" and her poems pull us right along with her. It's a journey worth taking. This is Kincaid's third publication and her
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Void. Laced. Celibate as she. </div>
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Hewn open like new wood.</div>
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mad winter growth;</div>
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Rite of passage</div>
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ushers in your time</div>
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of seasonal regeneration,</div>
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Dust hangs in the air. </div>
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Mound of shavings on the floor.</div>
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protected by nothing but expectancy<br />
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From the beginning </div>
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kindred voices whisper </div>
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Sea through the windows.</div>
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Landlocked roots. </div>
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You reel me in without a net.</div>
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Gently unhook. For
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Channels pulse an ancient beat,</div>
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Ancestors line the shore. </div>
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unearthed from nowhere,</div>
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Forgotten in the
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bent in a pentagram<o:p></o:p></div>
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for that first kiss.
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Our collision
was complete.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Geometric. Reciprocal.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I wore it home on
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It concealed enough
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to steal
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while our hands
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Then I knew there
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Romantic
notions. Miracles. <o:p></o:p></div>
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When it was time
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I left it behind
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next to the trilby
at your door; <o:p></o:p></div>
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knowing I would
be back<o:p></o:p></div>
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to the golden
ratio,<br />
lasting result
of chance.</div>
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Splendid cocoon.</div>
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I no longer live at home;</div>
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have taken up residence in my room</div>
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like a semi-detached adolescent.</div>
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Sleep is supposed to let the demons out.</div>
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I compose letters with doodles in the margins.</div>
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No need to replace the bulb in the bedside lamp.</div>
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I have developed night vision.</div>
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I believe in scenery, look out the window. </div>
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Monkey swing branch to branch in the maple. </div>
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Steal from the sleeping cap peddler.</div>
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Throw down my hat.
Sweat.</div>
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Turn my pillow, search for the cool side.</div>
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Pace around like waiting for a biopsy.</div>
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Accentuate my hard R's.
Then roll them. </div>
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I am ready for Carnegie Hall.</div>
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I pray to the electric fan.</div>
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Belt it. Sounds
like yodeling.</div>
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My hair blows out in a radiant halo,</div>
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grows long enough to cover my Venus bits.</div>
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Time stands still like I am twelve.</div>
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I rise one last time from the open mattress. </div>
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Dust bunnies pollinate the air.<br />
My wings visceral and lacy in the dark.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">Fast prayer. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">Eyes wide open.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">Candle unnecessary.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">Simple, yet superior.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">Release never felt this good.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">Know what you know. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">Mean what you mean.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">No room for gooey in the middle.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">Unsuspecting saint.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">He controls as much as he can.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">But not everything.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">Come what may.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">What-the-hell faith.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">Never prayed this hard.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">And meant it.</span><br />
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I have a hard time wrapping </div>
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Around this pastime. </div>
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It's backwards in every logical way. </div>
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Why the hell would someone want piss? </div>
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What do they do with it after they've taken it? </div>
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I heard it's based on a morning erection,</div>
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Brought on by a full bladder.</div>
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Appears this is the only reason </div>
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The first time I see you run.</div>
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Boyish. Easy.</div>
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Sun pales gray</div>
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through the train shed roof,</div>
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I wait for someone to shout "Cut!"</div>
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The doors close.</div>
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We're late. The attendant
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I don't mind. It's
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The carriage is warm.
It sways.</div>
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You explain why bricks change to stone </div>
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I find a station in your arms.</div>
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Stillness in your eyes.</div>
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Think how indecently happy,<br />
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Separate spigots. </div>
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Chain and stopper.
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Light switch in the hall. </div>
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Reflection in a compact won't do.</div>
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Life can be too clean; I apply war paint,</div>
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mess with your modest towels,</div>
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Lipstick graffiti.
Voodoo. </div>
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I dead man's float in your tub;</div>
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leave my soap on the edge.</div>
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Feathers on your floor.</div>
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make-do suspension, stubborn enough to find a way<span style="background: white; color: #181818;">,</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818;">woven one
sleepless night at a time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I take only memory, ditch the bangles<span style="background: white; color: #181818;">.</span></div>
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Each step aches freedom, dreads narrow spaces.</div>
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<i>Cavernous echo!</i>
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this temporary means from here to there.<br />
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Sometimes I see you </div>
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straight as you ever were, </div>
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teased and sprayed Seventies high. </div>
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King James in one arm,</div>
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purse padlocked to the other. </div>
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You say my birth name in a voice</div>
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this side of reluctance;
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ask if I remember to pray, </div>
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keeping in mind I might die </div>
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before I wake. </div>
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Disappointment plowed</div>
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a furrow in your Midwest brow</div>
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that ran between us like a dry iron.</div>
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I was a run in your Sunday hose,</div>
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First, I notice </div>
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the easy stride. </div>
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You move mainstream.</div>
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I think of the time </div>
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you wander to Birmingham </div>
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for that first punk album<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">―<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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coins in your pocket </div>
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like the silver your grandfather earned,</div>
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walking nineteen miles</div>
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straight up the middle of Yell </div>
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to fiddle for a wedding.</div>
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Those boyish endeavors bring you luck,</div>
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ancestral rhythms, word of mouth,</div>
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a fine-tuned ear.</div>
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You offer me your arm,</div>
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my feet barely touch the ground.</div>
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We dance a simple reel of lamp-posts, </div>
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paving stones, letterboxes<span style="background: white; color: #181818;">―<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818;">speaking of―</span>we
stop the incessant writing,<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">late
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
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flop of roses,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Like the city, your grip is strong.</div>
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You guide me in quiet stride. </div>
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Minster rises distant in paper-gray sky. </div>
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We step the same
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Wool-jacketed school children swarm the crossroad,</div>
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laughing. The Ouse
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Creamy limestone becomes mildewed churches.</div>
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Rose windows.
Gothic curves. Human efforts. </div>
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You point to chimney pots from station road walls.</div>
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I look up, hold tight against the cobbles. </div>
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Our feet touch.
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noble as a chess piece, handsome among the yew trees. </div>
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Popcorn cannot forgive </div>
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laughter on contact, </div>
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joints ceramic without a net. </div>
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numb to the sting. </div>
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Odd burlesque in a dark ring.</div>
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Abrahamic slapstick.</div>
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No audience. No applause.
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I sleep on the unbruised side,</div>
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dream of crossing the tightrope, a star.</div>
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They are seen in eyes,</div>
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the way the head leans to one side;</div>
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half-breaths hang luxurious,</div>
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simply for the pleasure of it.</div>
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Natural rhythms weave calm;</div>
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lull without inflection or solution.</div>
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We do not rely on talk; </div>
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not at all awkward.</div>
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