Asterisk
Cresting the fence, each leaf
sharply particular, edgy, nearly
identical to its kin.
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String of periods.
String of period
living rooms, lights
coming on in them.
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One’s coordinates
or the coordinates
one is?
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To be found
wanting.
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How many billion
suns blazing
and the universe
still dark
Narrative
Scattered against dark conifers,
the seared gold trees
I take for signal fires.
You too.
What do you think
they’re saying?
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In fiction, time
runs both ways
and the past is legible,
harmless.
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Question:
How are beauty
and meaning
connected?
Beauty seduces meaning.
Meaning stalks beauty.
Beauty breaks down
into meaning.
Meaning breaks down
into dreams.
