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The Fall of Art
First there was magic, / incantation; / pure bulls / walking the walls of Lascaux...
Tokyo Rain
With our cameras and crumpled clothes / we wait for the bus. We rush to each / “beauty spot” through narrow streets...
Transfiguration
The alarm sinks its teeth / into my ear. I drag out / of our warm bed. Another...
Allee-Allee-Enfree
Nutshells on patched linoleum, / cracks skipped over / on the long sidewalk home...