loose tooth

working the orchard

they were pretty dehydrated 

one of the apples 

pulled off the branch 

they sunk their teeth in 

went in for another

bite they saw blood 

felt around the mouth 

the drunken fight 

last night 

a tooth was 

loose

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time blind

The sun set on a quiet winter day and they fell off into a faraway cavernous thought space with music playing off a box radio plugged in and hung up over the sink with bungees so they could access it from the bed, too heavy to move. Time got lost in their blindness of it.

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sugar

she gave them #sugar
honestly
enough to sweeten the deal
not poison it

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twilight

clouds were roaming
we were still
in the gloaming there settled
a chill


a wolf was circling
with three coyotes
coming in
for the kill

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tea

black tea 

and me 

always agreed 

she declared 

we are more like green 

respect 

and keep a fair 

distance

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tsundoku

the difficulty was not with tsundoku so much as it was with society and the tendency they had to work and work and work the plentiful jobs none of which supplied the proper income to live on the blade

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OCT1

they acquired the skin of a melon ... layers upon layers of bruised rejection ... exterior to a sweetness saved for the one true love they had yet to lay eyes on

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