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and it shall set you free
set you up
set you down at the table
and lay it all on the line
a bird on the wire
a girl against the ropes
which can't tie you
if you don't need to hold on
hold over
be held by anyone else
and anyone else isn't here with you
right now right yet
know what's right for you
know that truth is contingent
is a screen
that once told
rips the curtain from the tabernacle
breaks the altar in two in you
will walk through
a test by fire
your open hands to the sky
will give you peace

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Friday, November 09, 2007

i've got

this side of me
this sense of me
this pounding
this pushing

to be

this side of me
this risk of me
this fearless me
this shameless me

who just lives

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Thursday, November 08, 2007

another day on eastern avenue

the trouble is

i've got many rooms
and the draft comes in
and blows the plastic sealing
off the windows

the trouble is

in four entrance doors
don't use them and they'll rot
be a faithful guest
and i'm always waiting for more

i lean hard
i loom over
i fall apart
i keep secrets

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Wednesday, November 07, 2007

this old tree

i carved on
out a space
onto myself
in words words words

i've leaned back
into this swing
onto the ropes
built my own damn tree house

these roots
hold me up
make me sore
and shift perspective

these leaves
write themselves
wilt themselves
cover my crumpled ground

i cannot go
cut from here
propagate as fully
can't dig this up, again

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