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anneshaw

  1. Skirting the platform's edge / I refuse the rolling bag, preferring to carry everything on my back.
  2. and the strangers on the train, breathing in their golden tennis shoes
  3. these days I cannot help / but keep hard track
  4. this dirty shining water splitting the city's core
  5. his ragged hair, his stark and restless eye
  6. aggression of public space
  7. not the body merely, but its attendant grief
  8. not excess of light, but light's configuration on the sand
  9. not joy but the shadow of it
  10. what is this small labor? Could it be called resistance / could it be called breath
  11. the sky like milk glass where the birds alight
  12. what I asked for came to catch me / as the light burst through its sky.
  13. on these floors of disappointment / we call "love"
  14. as doors in the city breathe
  15. this shining body, roiling to shore
  16. I was the wilderness, pounding to get in / you, the staving-off
  17. resolute gray lake begins to breathe
  18. I begin to reckon cities
  19. caught in the reckoning teeth
  20. my lost evangelist, my last evangelist