Cadaver, Speak
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“Fate behind the pillars where something fell.”
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“We lose names of things. Then the things they named.”
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“And the door, what of the hinge, little cry that won't uncry itself.”
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“Not all of us get to be ghosts.”
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“What a puzzle death becomes, rainy afternoons to put who we were back together.”
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“The moon, how it cannot know.”
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“Future or past, it's all we ever think about.”
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“I can see where this is going and I don't want to. I don't.”
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“But too much rain can translate anything to unspeakable.”
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“There's time, this lasting forever.”
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“It's how words come apart in a dream. And then you're awake.”
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“Even night is a gesture, sleep a cog in its wheel of stars. Lie down. At some point you lie down.”
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“A poem is a box, a thing, to put other things in. For safe keeping.”
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“A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice.”
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