Poets/C. Dale Young

C. Dale Young

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A fascicle of feathers in my hand, hand …

C. Dale Young

I learned to hide my wings almost immediately, …

C. Dale Young

Because this is a dream, the beach is completely …

C. Dale Young

In that old story, the boy is depicted as delicate, …

C. Dale Young

As if the sky during its emergence …

C. Dale Young

Because the silence of the dead, …

C. Dale Young

Already his abdomen was sculpted, and already …

C. Dale Young

Not, as some believe, from the word genesis, …

C. Dale Young

Lamps have begun to light as evening, …

C. Dale Young

A single seedling, camp follower …

C. Dale Young

Women want to save you or want you to savage them. …

C. Dale Young

“If God is Art, then what do we make …

C. Dale Young

And what if I had simply passed you by, …

C. Dale Young

Ignoring the local reliquiae— …

C. Dale Young

Beyond the strings of water …

C. Dale Young

I love. Wouldn't we all like to start …

C. Dale Young

One of them grants you the ability …

C. Dale Young

The pearls, mere reminders. …

C. Dale Young

Somewhere outside Kyoto's line, she said, …

C. Dale Young

The angle of the sun does not confuse them— …

C. Dale Young

It is not the chambers of the heart that hold him …

C. Dale Young

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