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sun lightly lays a cross
above the wake (kenned) wait
listing listen(ed
it) at alter of tort
sure ways of elision
law less sins of / omitted
or ore oration the
divisible intangent riven
kennebunk- trilled
sliver s ills
fro(m) aye pinpoint
sans sin sea
side ways of divining pos
sibling rivals riveted to
revels stopped / dead
weighting for a mir
roar of jets rockets
read(y) glare of public eye
would luck be pretty
(mirage like) weighing some
and re(a)d eye wit less
rock blands might as well be
oars forsaken can
you see
beyond self
s wall / wail (white
weight of im positions
posters posture permanence
rocked and stone
rolled a way off (staged (stooged
make it easy make it slow make it
im per man(ent) allowing will
to smooth the rocks to roll with
waves in stages and by ways
to soothe perhaps
lone white and brine
unto brink sand(man) dream
fever browbeaten
breakered fortuned foamed
against shored ruins
surging ragged into rutted racked
and retarded wisdom washed up
beakers tip to spill ash
or the makings of stale
compounds metronymic
mid evening dress for excess
metal urgency tars
the leavings of remembered down time
timed out and above met
all red metonymic wings
spread and beating down on embers
flash and ash blown over grass browned
around any other grave
moment of airy nonchalance unbalanced
lashing out means nothing lashing out
grave con-
sequences ensue momentum
chafes the low read of the -lorn ride
(ensemblive) taints
most balance (ballast) quaking
faking the slide back or sand/witched
between un chosen choses how things
refuse fail to work out in
semblance of seeming balance
d reamed out rendered null
a void all chemi calls
re usal lances seams
and then the rending chems a witching
hourlight hoses split the aching
backfills sand on sand
culling the use from ailing
posture’s b/land (nest)
hand at rest but on
red push or black cauldron
droned wailing way behind drowned
waiting for a trained b eagle eye
d feckless walk of talk balked by
real used cares washed out a way
believable round talking points
edged out by aulde licentious
parch and airways
weighing in on rush hour
roan in craft just slightly
use (to mean pre-owned)
value edit pre-koaned to
possession fallen off edges
all round / how a moat in the i
nintends trajectories of cost
analysis psyched across
torqued pathways exhausted and felled out
ora pro nobis ( )
a chaotic knot requited needs
fall-guy after fall-guy after . . .
tending crosses guessed at
sans moat around
psychosis watch this crossing (out)
signed on (hold on (held not
back any time between
cigarettes and wild wild
whoa man (unkind cut or
burn (out / rage
turned in on self too satisfied hung out to
urns left (w)hole at age on
timetold flooring over time
the guestbook trepid knots
its way to signatory self too kind
not rough against
the temblor shores
sheered away
as flows floated for
guessed returns (guest returns
always ghosted as written for the (m)
other of all nors / a refusal to see red
roars of resistance molten / electric writ
Lobatse flavors ghostlines fusing
tarmac with flush sky
mot juste that curries favor with
seared surfaces
turned a ways
from guesthouse eyes
gusting sighs for forgetfulness / how
(k)not turn back a clock
ed it eration of all errors ex
plosive plausive plaintiffs
plead (double) crossing the bar
s poked prison housed and sinking
lockdown, drawback, iterative sousing’s
leaden way the rousing
spar spokes errands
ticking gusto pried
out of the ink
implosively toward plaudits
plaited and plotted across
abysms tsunamied in eyes of
storm clouding intellection
interaction interdicted by the stoppered
mind / mint condition so unused
and empty the contra dictionary closed
peppered links mint
usury and guesses loud
mind empties loss
and eyesight (lots) warns of each
sit-comedic defection
from the also-dit a/gain/staid
stayed as executed execut
ive decision chewed up mint/ed exit
ed exist/essential belief in
moloched banks main
streaming (streeting) video
s oft pedaling laugh tracks to cliffedge
pinned kings pedal through
the angst vidalia on ions
restrict tearing
all the byways left distinct from
mint con dit-
on dit each laugh track by de fault
less than ever felt as even smudge
judge meant to come home flown
awry / a cloud
ed perception of things (kings)
or the river sold down
the reaver out on that line (up
cork-sprung mid-
flight untracked
unhinged much
less loud
(unsung!) (just thought) lines
that leave off drudge of lungs
lungs drugged drag of dustfilled nos
trilled damage crying a river
to(o) dry below a screaming sky
flight zones parceled out as predicated
prediction line of fiery declamation/
decimation / decline(d)
listen to the lines define
claimed space against the tones
that fill the sky a maze
of that up-
lifts to parcel out the decimal
points taken to retract prediction
to redact prevision
s soi-disant memory loss
calling upon new media
s res / tivities slick fillies
lope around buttes of buts and
take the quick way out of (t)here
Tivoli streams fill
vacancies yet here buttes seem flaw(ed)-
less carvings than framed
heresy precursor to
the improvised
new & (im)proved