your not existing has little to do with your failure to exist

Sheila E. Murphy


(initial segments)

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as your sponsor I have ordered a spondee for us to share

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the window we look through together has become a form of scenery that works in two ways

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shepherds may have seemed relaxed from this distance of a prior future

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taken for granted and in aggregate the lymph nodes resist emergence of (un)familiar battles

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whining once confused with music came to embrace quarter tones where quarter horses had raced in search of a pacific state

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matrilinearity purported to relinquish differently proposed fatestreams

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whose icicles are these diminishing constructions