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you find a smudged

thumbprint in

your new book

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bleached and crunchy

the grass gives way to

tiny white flowers

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at the side of

the highway a bathtub

with feet

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passing the pool light

the blue ball

turns the room blue

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they flash in the sun

out of the shade

cliffside swifts

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sunken in the ground

wooden rocker

now a chair

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summer rain

the corn never

took off

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flag on a mailbox

a country

that doesn’t exist

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the scattered

roses outlast

the sunflower

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we keep them

in drawers the people

we used to be

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