........The Poetry Of.
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Karen Corcoran Dabkowski ....................
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Changing Skins ....................
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I whistled ....................
in answer ....................
to a bird so high in a tree, he was a ....................
speck of sound. My pure note ....................
met his sweet and he was ....................
answering. ....................
We carried on like that ....................
a good ten minutes ....................
till I felt feathers ....................
grow on cheeks, along my arms ....................
so rain crow soft and silken, I was ....................
answering him in ways beyond the tweet ....................
pu-weet of chirp. I warped as bones, shoes ....................
lighter grew ....................
and on that wick of joy
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I flew ....................
not far, but up. ....................
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Compensating Half
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I feel like a ship ....................
that's listing to one side. Sleep ....................
so claimed the left brain, ....................
right one's limping, ....................
doing the work of ....................
both hemispheres. Seeing words as ....................
tools, as flatware, forking up these lines ....................
-the whimsy gone, yet doing ....................
a creditable ....................
job. ....................
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The left brain ....................
is still galloping ....................
in gauzy mists of dream, ....................
will not get up, so poetry's ....................
invaded ....................
the right; this will be a day of ....................
swimming numbers, swimming rainbow fish. ....................
Not adding up, but pretty ....................
in cerebrospinal wet. ....................
The algorithmic succumbing to a ....................
dance of seven veils. Erato's ....................
wearing glasses and her sensible ....................
shoes, but up on balls of feet, ....................
ready ....................
to shoot the moon. ....................
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Hollywood, Florida
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Couple leap to their death ....................
from 17th ....................
floor ....................
condo. That's what the ....................
headline said. It took my hand ....................
and forced me to look ....................
where it was------long, ....................
sad. ....................
My heart fell in two ....................
pieces ....................
like a cloven fruit. I saw them ....................
aging, childless- Morris ....................
more ....................
and more so ....................
out of breath, in pain and ....................
choking on air that would not come. ....................
His wife, Estelle, ....................
watched him go ....................
out the window ....................
after asking the maintenance man ....................
to open it up- he had to ....................
breathe ....................
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he wanted ....................
screens ....................
and then the sound was her own scream ....................
before the thud. She knew that he ....................
would do it ....................
all along. It wasn't fair. He hit ....................
before she made it to the windowframe, her hips ....................
at 80 ....................
weren't ....................
what they were ....................
when they first married, 42 ....................
years ago. Estelle ....................
fell ....................
second ....................
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wanting nothing more than one ....................
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more ....................
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touch- ....................
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I ....................
love ....................
thee ....................
to ....................
the ....................
depth ....................
and ....................
breadth ....................
and ....................
height ....................
when ....................
feeling ....................
out ....................
of ....................
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sight ....................
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and ....................
if ....................
God ....................
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choose ....................
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Morris ....................
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if ....................
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Hewont ....................
Iwill. ....................
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