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  6. Finding Paul's Marker
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  9. Grief in a Dry September
  10. A Headache on Tuesday, February 26, 2002
  11. heaven
  12. A Hillside Pond in the Rain
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  15. Intersection
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  17. A Janitor on Hansen Way
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  19. Lucy in the Streets with Ashes
  20. The Man in Blue
  21. When the Morning Air was Cold
  22. Night Stand
  23. objectification
  24. (Quoting Emily Dickenson)
  25. Racoon Eyes
  26. Red Lips
  27. Reflections on a dislocation
  28. The Runway
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  30. San Antonio Station, January 3, 2005, 4 Pm
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  33. Prayer for an Old Woman
  34. Encounter in an Unfinished Room
  35. Y Sovendo Morréu com Raiva
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  37. Tethered
  38. Before the Beast
  39. The Ties that Bind
  40. Viewing Bald Eagles
  41. Voyeur
  42. What I Learned on Summer Vacation
  43. What I Learned on Summer Vacation
  44. Without You
  45. Love Poem to You Written on a Mountain
  46. Your Tongue is Soft and Your Teeth Slide in Easy

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If I  had  a  favorite  flower  it  would  surely  be  the
dandelion which moves across the tissues of  the  bleeding
earth, filling the crevices  in  the  concrete  wastelands
with green softness. 
                     We can depend upon it to flower  even
as the earth melts under our feet, even as our world silts
into the sea.  
              I will last less time than even these  raven
hatchlings, mindlessly asking  for  food,  food  and  more
food, because I've  already  stopped  growing,  because  I
already know all I will ever  know,  because  I  delineate
myself to concrete paths. 
                          These big-eyed babies,  awkward,
rank and stupid will lift in the air simple as  flecks  of
dandelion down while I sink  in  the  crumbling  waves  of
rock.

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