Poets/Averill Curdy

Averill Curdy

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Unfastened avidly from each ivory button …

Averill Curdy

The wake sewing shut those white lips …

Averill Curdy

You lean disconsolate on your stool, …

Averill Curdy

i. a long voyage, 1621 …

Averill Curdy

The cheap dropped ceiling …

Averill Curdy

It was 1986, when currencies to be changed …

Averill Curdy

Never the bark and abalone mask …

Averill Curdy

After the trumpets, after the incense …

Averill Curdy

Until wolf-light I will count my sheep, …

Averill Curdy

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