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Timing Still Is

If she rushes, she can reach the farmers market before metal saw  horses get collapsed, planks loaded onto the truck, leftover watermelon rolled away. If  she slows down, she might catch a note or two trapped inside clouds from last … Continue reading

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Listening to “Sandusky”

I must learn how to describe each tiny movement from solid green to a yellow brushed with red breaking  into orange without   these blocks of language. I turn up the volume when this instrumental plays—sweet  guitar sings vocal lines, the … Continue reading

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Scratch (Day 2,426)

Graffiti isn’t graffiti unless she calls it. On an old water tower crowning an abandoned grain mill—  perhaps. “Erin I love you” attaching itself to the “and then it got very cool” end of Ashbery’s poem on a pedestrian  bridge—definitely. … Continue reading

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This Time Dublin

One of those downpours, it falls hard and fast and is gone before city gulls reach the south quays. No rainbow. Wrong time of day. The smallest of Calatrava’s bridges, a steel white winged bird poised to take flight over … Continue reading

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