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Thinking to see them there, captains

industrious in

morning sun, I crack the egg’s tender

yellow head

Love comes to me un-

­repentant, toward it all vectors

converge repeating, like

moment of the necessary form

I pluck a feather from your neck

On the page one alights without permission, or

love is

an assemblage

beginning each day identical, palpable I

remarks of, is it that music or need edits

my body

two people leave a shopping mall

with goods, death squad hovering high

a streetlamp

Call your mother, stay up late

to watch the neighborhood

undressing light, like

multiple phone calls

connected then

hung up, get the family together soon, watch

American bison overtake the field

filling a vehicle lane in early snow

obstructed I paused

To see it, their dark furs shaking enormous

out of trees they descended from the line of sky

respond to a much deeper instinct

we were then back on our way

input later to the search bar

I love keywords, like

love is

an exodus

I imagine you sleeping, then a pyramid or

chandelier throwing sunlight

An absence emerges, sharp

I regard the whole

practice of it

touch it

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