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Bad Catechumen

Sam Downey-Higgins

The Bad Catechumen writes poems when he should be at church.

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Meeting the Moth Before its Death

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A monumentality to the sudden moth;
a mountain of eyes between the brown 
leaves of kettle-lime —

black eyes...
2 days ago
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A Synoecism

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α) City of Roses

City of the Rose for Helios;
The threat of it blooms 
Above the bronze of his spear
Eac...
7 days ago
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Attention

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Because our whatever it is
cranes a little over us to peek
at futures or remind itself
of pasts, embarrassment...
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Garden City

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Grandfather stood under two 
chestnut trees on the rise 
in the shade by the bright pool.

The ornate bridge...
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Old Man Thumos vs. the Baby(lon)boomers

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No one says a word 
about his lilacs anymore;
think our careful conversations
in the stolen aft...
a month ago
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