Stars fall and
crack
open tonight.
Stars call you
to
wing, to take flight.
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Stars fall and
crack
open tonight.
Stars call you
to
wing, to take flight.
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Trapped, the key caught in her throat
taunts the door without the body
and tries to call the red door within the chest
to unhinge itself.
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I hold coins in my pocket, refuse to drop them
into Charon’s rawbone hand;
I hold the gifts of my passage under my cloak
back from this boatman’s demand.
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I suffer the dreams of a world gone mad.
I have seen things that you will never see, and the film
is on a maddening loop. The heavens are falling down
and I can’t even breathe.
We turn kingdoms into dust as the violins
fill with water, as the winter takes one more cherry tree.
Everything has chains. I walk the sweet rain tragicomedy and
pass by a thousand signs, looking for my own name.
Have I run too far to get home?
Some die just to live.
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The fire, crackling,
reaches fingers upward and curls
around the pan atop which the
open-mouthed, glassy-eyed fish softly char and
die again to the heat before
their final rest inside of our
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