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Tom Clark

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Wyatt, with no insurance on his own head, …

Tom Clark

sleepwalker can never die …

Tom Clark

Every day I peruse the box scores for hours …

Tom Clark

ephemeral as tinkerbell …

Tom Clark

The god of war assured King Arsounas, “Do not be fooled by words. No life is taken. Know that no one was ever born, nor does anyone die.” In the violent mini-eternity of the warrior, combat is conducted according to a ritual formal as song: no one is ever born, no one can ever die. The left-handed rockabilly guitarist whose left arm was severed by an RPG round at Dak To has come back to life in a part of my body that died long before we started to patrol this part of the river of eternal woe. His life is mine though I never lived it. The violent backwash of the rotors is crimsoned by a fine aerosol spray of blood while a loudspeaker amplifies the goddess’ excited laughter. …

Tom Clark

Always behind my back I hear …

Tom Clark

Don’t hurt the radio for …

Tom Clark

The smashed weirdness of the raving cadenzas of God …

Tom Clark

Nice spring day off big white cloud …

Tom Clark

The angel asked, as his shoulders were pressed into the stone …

Tom Clark

Poetry, Wordsworth …

Tom Clark

Whoso list to haunt could do worse than to …

Tom Clark

Then it was always …

Tom Clark

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