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Collected Poetry

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Diesel Eddy  

Book three of impromptu trilogy.

  Rain


Their offers propelled us like incendiary tools
to uncover that which remained prized
and unguarded.  Their monument, we thought,
could anticipate our desires as an incidental music

waiting to occur.  Even when reclined our hunger
was trained in smartly disposed board rooms
to appear content.  It was a form of courtesy
that must accompany us.  So, above his bed

a desert landscape drifted—his only digression—
the Wah Wahs rising up in their perfect brown
suit from a treeless country.  Some thickening
clouds already darkened the evening light

at his approach.  Then rain fell and danced
like urchins at his shiny, privileged feet.



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