locket's worth
of solstice against
tracing paper's
silhouette

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d'azur with no
in fact about
(face)
fades from 
penciled view

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A Short Biography

Rick the waiter called
to day my one ear-
ring's still
in his pocket

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obfuscuriosity
the shoe squish
that precedes
the drought

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vestiges and leafy
villages hide
sanctity's full-
on affection lobbed
across a summer fence

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he was a merger 
by himself, I
took photgraphs
out of this top drawer
and mounted them

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