Short Lines
A brick is the next in the story
tell me what you mean, padlocked doorway,
collapsed ceiling, heaving trees.
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Sunlight through traincars stamps a barcode.
Bird-calls modem.All the great metaphors have been taken.
Yellow-beige lawn under melting snow yields
weeds the color of telephone poles,
and on the Garden State Parkway:
a celphone tower built to look like a pine tree.
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