Confidence returns,
aspirates infinity
after him
unsure home.
Say owed.
Begin
subsist
leave
everything un-gained.

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Years pleated
worn cold-blooded dirty smell.
Another licked
afternoon remembers.

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Still dense winter
socks turn against sugared fingers.
Language colors footsteps toward distance
blankness starting between.

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First tight years limped,
came blue materials
embarrassed surprise.
Not foreign food,
sky.

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Loose thought ends.
Write long letters.
Owe everyone.

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Dull imagination subsided
angles stayed
forgot father’s wants.

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Met
first fingered
glared
even then
gone.

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Gently 13
she disappeared.
I index her going.

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Suburbia knew January.
School starts
outside
dim hungry light.

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Forgotten
she trips,
ice misses
disposing clouds indoors.

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Late
before summer
she brought a dandelion.

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Stop.
Backtrack
where past strangers left
sidewalks crack.
Start out.