seneca guns & other phenomena

1. thinking of kissing   you I move
2.  
3. my tongue across     my pills
4.  
5. [my pillow dampened by morning's distraction]
6.  
7. your lips could split an ocean
8.  
9. o how your mouth broke me
10.  
11. [I push the sand grit from my face]
12.  
13. o how you threw me   from continental shelf to unforgiving
14.  
15.    atlantic abyss
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17.       [from the salt smudged window I see the pelican
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19.       its silent flight abovethe shore reeling
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21.       against the wind's extended release]
22.  

1.  
2. I am familiar w/the sound of cannon fire
3.  
4. I say the sound of seneca guns is nearly identical
5.  
6. [but is passion desiring a particularperson a single mysterious other
7.  
8. once & for always w/out]
9.  
10. boomrattle    rattle boom& it is
11.  
12. through  the light
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14. in the lighthouse throbbing with antici
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16. pation     what it is probably
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18. not ghostly weapons
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20. industrial disaster global
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22. warming   tectonic shifting
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24. top secret activity [though we all have secrets some of us
25.  
26.    stifling them w/tetracyclics coffee
27.  
28.    with artificial sweetener assorted candy
29.  
30.    colored reuptake inhibitors six packs
31.  
32.    of diet soda& when sleep finally comes secrets
33.  
34.    crestthen crash over usleave us
35.  
36.    gibbeted in sweat soaked sheets come
37.  
38. morning]

1.  
2. there is only the invisible
3.  
4. weight of your body rumbling in from the seathe length
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6. of it stretchingover alabaster
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8. lab coatsthe whole of its tender
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10. intensity slidingpast seismographs
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12. [& when I mention pills I imagine my tongue
13.  
14. on the cool moonlit sea glassof bottleI imagine this
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16. one wordthis one prayerthis one praise
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18. this one regret]