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Tag: discovery

Deep Sea Diving

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 Blake’s ocean

A gas station

Black medicine

In a vial

You said I thought I was Jesus

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You said I thought I was Jesus

In exile

We handled snakes

I was yours truly

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I was yours truly

I swallowed a shot of ink

We faded

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We faded

Vibrantly

In retrospect we were children

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In retrospect we were children

At the carnival

Deep sea diving

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Of by Steven McCabe

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As if the drip of machinery oil

And of knowledge of musculature

Were enough

In the search of room after room

Coinciding with the rediscovery of sculpture

Coinciding with the sculpture of rediscovery.

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Originally published in my collection Jawbone (Ekstasis Editions, 2005)