Writing

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7/9/20: A Definition Seeking a German Word

a look

that longs for sleep empty

of dreams

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7/8/20: Guest Chef

you stopped chopping to

ask, “What’s a good metaphor

for metaphors?”

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7/7/20: Screen Time

on the couch tracing

a fly’s meandering path

to escape

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7/6/20: Dear Mr. Roethke

what if my soul isn’t

noble enough to know what

it is at odds with?

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7/5/20: ‘Tis of Thee

picturing sound drawn

by Disney as waves fading

before the shore

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7/4/20: Fireworks

the “work” in the word—

is it measurement, method,

or ignition?

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7/2/20: Always

near here at

intersections—people

begging for notice