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I play with your name as if given permissions to reinvent you...
 
The master gardener, with scythe and sickle...
 
a man died on his own bed...
 
she tries on masks each evening, with a bottle of wine...
 
When the earth's shadow's covers the moon, will you and I switch places...
 
The color of stones you might have imagined...
 
Exhibit A: "Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing," a first edition, with a three-inch hole I've drilled through its emptiness...
 
A horsefly, flicked softly on the rump of a horse...
 
They're everywhere. They form tumbleweeds in the hallway...
 
Sometimes you look at the world, and you can't understand it for all you try...
 
The pausing trumpet player inhales with all tension...
 
Scripture said: we are from dust and should return to dust...
 
When I finished reading Lewis Nordon's book, Wolf Whistle...
 
the black-robed figures rise in memory...
 
I'll leave the trail I know...
 
Psychologist and anthroplogists have long been devising schemes for reading emotions and demeanors in facial expression...
 
This morning I dreamed myself...
 
She puts a mirror in front of the appealing landscape...
 
I used to think my father lived in a drawer. Literally. Until I was fourteen years old...
 
She sits on the steps...
 
The tree is in the middle, but how they argued...
 
I needed to know what they might fetch on the open market...
 
Immersed in a dark ding attic...
 

The Stillness of Love and Exile
by Rosa Martha Villarreal
Tertulia Press, 2007

The Bottomless Well.
 
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