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Snow packs the roadsides, sends du… onto the pavement, moves through vision like a wave or sand… The bus charges this winter, a whale or blunt gray
The snake hunts and sinews his way along and is not his own idea of viciousness. All he wants… a fast grab, with fur and a rapid pulse, so he can take that flutter…
i In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fe… the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction
Two voices took turns using my eyes: One had manners, painted in watercolours, used hushed tones when speaking
In winter the beach is empty but south, so there is no snow. Empty can mean either peaceful or desolate. Two kinds of people walk here:
In that country the animals have the faces of people: the ceremonial cats possessing the streets the fox run
She reclines, more or less, Try that posture, it’s hardly lang… Her right arm sharp angles. With her left she conceals her amb… Shoes but not stockings,
Starspangled cowboy sauntering out of the almost– silly West, on your face a porcelain grin, tugging a papier-mache cactus
It was taken some time ago. At first it seems to be a smeared print: blurred lines and grey flec… blended with the paper;
The eye is the organ of vision, and the third eye is no exception to that. Open it and it sees, close it and it doesn’t. Most people have a third eye but they don’t trust it. That wasn’...
The bronze clock brought with such care over the sea, which ticked like the fat slow hea… of a cedar, of a grandmother, melted and its hundred years
You begin this way: this is your hand, this is your eye, that is a fish, blue and flat on the paper, almost
What should we have taken with us? We never could decide on that; or what to wear, or at what time of year we should make the journey
This is the plum season, the night… blue and distended, the moon hazed, this is the season of peach… with their lush lobed bulbs that glow in the dusk, apples
I would like to watch you sleeping… which may not happen. I would like to watch you, sleeping. I would like to sleep with you, to enter