April 26, 2025

Have Have Haven’t Been

Incredibly under text messages

Ever forward because the equations said so

Not saying so

Not still and/or not moving and/yet moving

Like the last scene done well.

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And like a motion, an electric motion, wiperblades wiping, interlingual exchange, evangelism, hung juries leaving the courthouse, every lunar eclipse in a leap year, and another autumn around the corner.

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All the layers of a Smith Island Cake

Personal preferences

Rain in April in every one of my 51 years in every place I’ve ever lived

And yet, and how, and when, and even.

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Like hearing the rain there, over the phone, when it is raining here.