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Where the Field Retracted

 

indifference requires a lineless sky

               the muted television appears

a substitution

what split from the body days ago

               still hovers in a corner

of the stairwell

               to sleep a position-less

               arc between

concept and illustration

waking slow to hail falling on the air unit

               any case of interiority

itself reversible

               arguably imagined

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On Balance
 

after blooming the cactus shrivels incrementally

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driving away, an ox— its horns crooked

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blame grows small in the moth’s circling

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day to day the slightest tooth loosens

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a landscape changes until returning by habit

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the child’s sound without concept repeats

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where intention collects— a sparrow lost in topiary