2.14.13
February 18, 2013 § 3 Comments
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no
matter
what
I
fuck
up
the
daffodils
come
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(for John Martone)
JOHN MARTONE ant ant ant ant ant six
January 14, 2012 § Leave a comment
A CHIP OF BLUE GLASS
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potted
bamboo
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tall
enough
now
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to be
taken
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at night
for
human
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hoes
her patch
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kneels
& speaks
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seed
lings
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thru trees
little
more
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than
a shack
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painted
white
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a
dream
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haven’t
for
gotten
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where
to look
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a few
square
inches
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dutchman’s
breeches
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thumb
size
piece
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of
coral
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a
long way
here
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what
this ant
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carries
off
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glints
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cabbage
white
takes
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five
hundred
feet
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to dis
appear
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autumn
avo
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cado
trees
:
lean
toward
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the
window
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hasn’t
opened
yet
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sun
flower
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al
ready
turns
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half
bottle
blue
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dish
liquid
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on
window
sill
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above
alley
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rain
water
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in
a can
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within
an
other
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past
green
thicket
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woman
in
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white
pa
jamas
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hangs
her wash
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fall
asters
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all
around
half
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a
cinder
block
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my street’s
all
aglint
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from
a chip
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of blue
glass
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out of
nowhere
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:
back
doorway’s
:
spider
webs
empty
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wine
bottles
&
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a
builder’s
level
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one
step
back
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&
grass
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un
bends
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stem
by stem
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store
front
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all
that’s left
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glass vase
some
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white
orchids
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:
a
long
ago
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baby
food
jar
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for
bamboo
cuttings
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JOHN MARTONE ant ant ant ant ant eight
October 4, 2011 § Leave a comment
Longer Arms After Picking Tomatoes
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in that blue shirt
fallen scarecrow
could be me
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some pebbles
& some knotted cord
to show for these days
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rained on
just like
white pines
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snail shell left
a thumbprint
in mud
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snow brought
a lot
of light
:
his room
a shoebox
diorama
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in time
you’ll fit in
snail shell
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there’s no one else
to gather
these walnuts
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footbridge
where there’s
no one
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white roses
falling
apart
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the white rosebush
doesn’t
need me
:
in pine shade
my front steps
collapsing
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cucumbers
climbing
sunflowers
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chicken wire
encircling pink
lady’s slippers
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door frame
fallen
in mint
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sparrow
watching me
drink
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watering pines
brings robins
& wasps
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gourd vine
sharing this line
with laundry
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every starling
in that tree
faces west
:
seed packet’s
lunar white
inside
:
my face
towel’s
frayed
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my neighbor’s
two chimneys
don’t fall
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green shack
sinking into
weeds
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longer arms
after picking
tomatoes
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every seed
in seed packet’s
fold
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all this time
carrots’ve been
hiding
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a stranger
where garden’s
overgrown
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suddenly
he sees it’s
a slum
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come home
to 3 fireflies
at my door
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tomato bush
tall enough
to hide me
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