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Herman Shorts

Herman Shorts

inconceivable

i could not conceive
of such beauty, it
had to hit me
like it has.
nothing
thought
made or is
at all even held
by its sad demand,
this and that be this
and that is what it is.
so easily you climb
every fence ever
mistakenly made
to try to hold
beauty in.

(2014)

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displace

being drawn back unlike a bowstring but down and in as water finds the lowest



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