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NOTES FROM THE FOREST

 

more is lost than the literal forest

valley girl talk in a poem

ha            let us become the

 enemies of style    the wind came up

 and then it was no longer possible to tell

what was something a lie and what was

something the wind     there's your chicken

and egg again              do not externalize

suffering by putting it to art in the space of a page

I've seen this pun on sentence before      you

know it was in the trouble with truth

a trap a structure in language an interlude

malleable nature of place/space

it was on fire we wanted to crawl inside

will always wonder what it was that I

didn't quite hear whispered into my ear because

most of us don't know what goes on inside

a lock it is sometimes effective at keeping

 


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