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09 Jan, 2012 Print PDF

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Clench

 

On the roof 

sheet aluminum

stencil thin

he painted it – wide

glops of locust paint

and milkweed hearts

its accents

a fawn

of exceeding

warmth

 

And in the winter

death-coughs

of sunflowers

the howl of the Osage

yellow fire

thick as a tow cord

and twice as neon,

bunched polyester to down

around the

limestone

 

We’d gun oil

the cherry

the 12-gauge oak

one eye on

the barn

the whole way through


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Two coats of paint?
harvey gable
The melding of organic and man-made fiber work well to establish a certain cottage-industry of sense and place. A farmers market, where well documented descriptive's read tacked to an old salvaged timber.
harvey gable , January 09, 2012

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