Tenderly or The Gertrude Improvs:
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Double Heart, triple chamber, goose honk
The pellet, singular, his terrible aim
- the Vice President.
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Looked away no place safe harbor:
The invisible a dreamt fortune
The crow "caw" collide an air language
The liberated eye falls into a tree:
The nest in the west a pioneer in the parlor
Takes a shot in the face no safe:
Follow he does an angle in the
Was it the sharpened - her jade, lime sweater -
Winter unwaxed the light.
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Rotate without axis. A narrow road
Is not a cross. A fertile foot step
Without a plow. A house in the City
A mouse in the pantry. The sweat
On the threshold. To speak volumes
The quiet so fecund. Listen.
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Any dry, open the window:
What drops the spoon
Elevates calm:
A pine, her window
The soft cry:
Where did I leave you.
Stephen Vincent
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