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An Open Letter…
An Open Letter to Up and Coming World-Savers
(Wonder Woman)
We all know the keys to our own transformations:
the secluded phone booths, the darkened caves,
the candlesticks that open the secret changing room
in the library, the magic words that conjure lightning,
and on and on. We’ve all created our methods
of shedding self in favor of Freud’s superego. Dive deeper…
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Pax Romana
Pax Romana
(Wonder Woman)
A boy, no more than twelve,
chanted, through shuttered eyes,
something about freedom from tyrants,
a government in homage of its people.
I hardly heard him over the howling
crowd, the firecracker gunfire, the Molotov
cocktails washing down in hot, smooth
arcs across the red-bricked square.
Dive deeper…
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Sometimes
Sometimes
the sound of rain
has become
that assonant murmur
of bustling
train stations,
Dive deeper…
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Blues Man
Blues Man
Dark-bodied girl
in the front row,
both eyes closed,
buried in the rhythm
of the way this darkness falls
over your body like wind—
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