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JustDaniel
post Feb 5 13, 17:36
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fresh fruit on the house:
roof orchard offers free
apples and peaches


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Larry
post Feb 6 13, 10:56
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hapless on beaches
sea turtles break leather bonds
death is in the air


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post Feb 6 13, 14:57
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dead man lost his hair
at the hands of Apaches;
blood on the prairie


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Larry
post Feb 6 13, 23:02
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brood on the priory
pigeons circle when bells ring
prayers rise without wings


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JustDaniel
post Feb 7 13, 11:38
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prairie without wings:
no dead bodies for buzzards
and no mosquitoes


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post Feb 8 13, 01:12
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mesquite trees add no
great beauty to the landscape
but limbs make great steaks


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post Feb 8 13, 10:33
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limburger steaks stink;
cheesy chef crams chuck
for foreign fancy


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post Feb 10 13, 00:48
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fancy for foreign
got gourmands food poisoning
there's no epi-cure


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post Feb 10 13, 21:39
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need no ipecac
changing pooey diapers;
flows naturally


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post Feb 11 13, 10:13
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nature's rally flows
raindrops are impassioned tears
washing her scarred face


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post Feb 11 13, 10:47
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washing sacred face
of a churchyard tombstone;
low clouds weep in grief


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post Feb 11 13, 13:04
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in grief, locals sweep
sand and snow from broken homes
oceans give and take


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post Feb 11 13, 14:41
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aught to give a stake
to the indigent minor:
mining for goaled


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post Feb 12 13, 01:09
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a gopher mining
grubing and rooting hunger
under the garden


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post Feb 12 13, 05:53
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under the garden
an old munitions dump;
exploding with flavor


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post Feb 12 13, 10:44
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exploding flavors
helped make the eagle well read
it lit her aerie


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post Feb 12 13, 15:52
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illicit acne:
pimples on the boy's face
behind the barn


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post Feb 13 13, 15:08
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behind being born
are numerous miracles
pro-creative spring


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post Feb 13 13, 15:14
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procreation springs
out of his Levis;
buttons undone


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post Feb 13 13, 15:35
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an undone button
causes her to blush and smile
much to your chagrin


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