do you like to visit the zoo?
ana from peru asks.
i do, i say, and she ticks the box,
then probes further: what do you like best?
i wonder when i last went to the zoo.
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midnight again
once more
return
new green leaves unfurl tentatively from last year’s dry brown canes
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the rain hits the pavement with a steady splash
and shafts of lightning forewarn of thunder’s uneasy rumble
after all
i noticed her face as he told her
“there was nothing we could do” —
saw the brightness fade, watched it crumple —
ghost falls ii
the winds scrapes rough on bleaching bone
and the whitened trunks of weathered trees
11:30
the fog hides in the hollows
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ghost falls
with skies of ash and waters of snow
we wonder where does the river go
limericky
there was a young woman who said
“it’s happened! the thing that i dread!”
at dawn
at dawn death rolled back
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