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autumn trees

noisy grackles

leave in silence

rooming house shower

watching cockroaches

scatter into holes

change break

the Casino hostess

adjusts her pantyhose

2/09/04

in the recess

of the bulkhead

a spider bites me

wild oats

ladyslippers

which path to take

lost in the lights

the high fly ball

that never comes down

2/09/04

stretched out

by a shadow

the grasshopper’s antennae

two crows huddle

on a bare elm limb

falling snow

crack

in the citadel wall

dandelion flower

2/09/04

out of the clouds

of summer rain

a red balloon

bumper to bumper

the monarch changes lanes

uncontested

wildflower garden

swallowtail wrapped

in a spider’s web

2/09/04

we both lie about the people who have kids we came to the pool with

2004

under the bridge the round stones still black with morning dew

2004

so hot I sell a book of poems so I can buy some tacos

2004