In you, the autumn's knowing ardor holds / The gold and amber lying at its root.

I have felt / her fist / stay strong / in my ribs, / known it / was love

clues I can be what you need / me to be: water-rich, able / to sustain your breathing.

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Tell him how sails resemble angel wings, / but show him the danger of sailing

She is fertile with water. She is ripe with god and sea oats.

“You an artist?” he asked me.

how he came to be oppressed or granted / free range as if dominion wasn't his to begin with

morning is ripe with new springs popping / down the mountainside, streaking it with thaw.

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Perhaps you have to have the right kind of thirst / to keep yourself inside your body.

“You’re Lennon,” Alice said. “I’m Alice.”

almost home: / above and beyond / the Jemez, hoofprint clouds

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