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Old Improvidence

Lee Summers

Poetry and prose about identity, memory, community, and whatever else I feel like writing about.

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Inflorescence:

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Open, midnight flower, in the death heat’s respite.
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Updates for May I & a NaPoWriMo Outtake

Fallen log along the shore of the James River, May, 2026. Photo taken by me (Lee Summers)

Hey, hi, hello,

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Any Sufficiently False Start is Indistinguishable from True

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Bald cypress, green feathers in
my hands as I gaze upon flora
beyond my own swamp?
No, wait,
start agai...
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Nine years since I asked you to dig up
     every atom of this neon star,
every orbit through dorms and hote...
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Limulus polyphemus Crosses the Limen

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gone adrift on the same tide,
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               a hurricane piled sand...
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    ELD teacher in the South by day, queer, mixed, neurodivergent poet by night, I don't use AI when I write.

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