how much is willing clay how much
is smoke that will fade away and
I see her laugh and stroke the dog
and wish I had an eighth of that
and that I could see more clearly
but I don’t feel lonely at the
mall and love the wildflowers but
don’t know much about them and love
my wife but don’t know much about
her either I’m not even sure
where she lives these days and I guess
I must have had some at some point
but searching there’s just this television
and cardboard cutouts in the windows
Tag: clay
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though in this case the ratio was
flipped, two parts animal and one part
divine so the light was filtered through
moist hairy clay though there were those times
before it got much worse
the henbit ground ivy toadflax
and other remembered saturations
scarlet pimpernel deptford pink scat
-tered at every turn thyme leaf speedwell
bird’s eye speedwell the constant buzzing
in my ear and nights of less and
much less what could our hero do
with fangs and fury just like the creature
though now that you say it like thatanimal, clay, creature, deptford pink, divine, fangs, fury, ground ivy, hebit, hero, nights, ratio, scarlet pimpernel
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on the clay we noted more than half of
the grain had spoiled, and the copper
was of quite poor quality but
we were then too many miles from
the great cities and their gods so
we crossed three more mountains dug six
more wells made our offerings with
fresh water and old song and waited so
tired but so hopeful it might work
this time then rain the earth slides and
the flies and filth the sores boils and
strange diseases but we walked and
found a green land one cool spring and
never heard the horses approach
other animals 