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• in the apartment that he never tried to leave a map of the world
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• anniversary on his bedside table a thin film of dust
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• the road home each bend unwinding an earlier version
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• at a crossroads summer wind through prairie grass
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• half the sky a deeper blue mid-life birthday
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• no Perseids yet— just the Milky Way and a million stars
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• across the blue dome of the great basin mustang’s eye        Originally published in the XIII Calico Cat Inte… more
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• straight furrowed fields all the things I wish I could unsay
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• thoughts unspool with the white line road trip
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• Missouri highway this night there?s only me and a radio preacher