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IF YOU’RE SCARED GO TO CHURCH

From the 2016 Collection "Nickels and Dimes"

The cicada,
       once with the humility of a barnacle
       weeping beneath the fern,
       now screams its inane mantra,
               which
               to the twitching grass
                       is jazz.
The blades dance on end,
       tethered by the earth’s hug,
       dance fearlessly
       in surrender.
And the stupid clouds
never stop fleeing the merriment below,
       thinking it a sin,
               they keep spearing the horizon
               in hopes of docking their shadows
               over paradise
               come morning.

From the 2016 Collection "Nickels and Dimes"
A collection of Juvenilia

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