by JIM ESCH
traffic snake slithers
copters hawking from above
our cars compacting
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institutional leather
I’m waiting on a brown couch
comfort doesn’t last
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by DANIEL E. WILCOX
warped fence boards in sand
lean askew toward green windbreak —
old gnarled cypress
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lines, no white shirts but
birds black in a row clothes-pinned
to the telephone wires
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