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INVITATION

My mouth is open to you—
to enter, to clean,
to heal like a wound.


PERCEPTIONS

Mimic—
          you dream you’re an original.

Original—
          you know you’re just a mimic.


FISH HAIKU

Should I ever drown,
Save this record of my time
Spent out of water.


THE CURSE

The best work’s been written in my head,
Where I have no paper or pen,

And where it seems to thread
Aimless until I remember it again.

Transcribing the words like this—less good.


IN RESPONSE TO

The sign asking,
What would Jesus do?

I prefer to ask,
What would Pontius do?

Then wipe my hands
imperially in the air,
turn, and walk away.


Unpublished Poem

2004-2005
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