flat-bottomed clouds, piled high
ice-cream scoops in a blue dishhome-made chocolate sryup
wind chimes singingwhat is fundamental? what
is superfluous?mockingbirds, cactus wrens,
hummingbirds at the sugar watera woman, forgotten, in an outdoor cage
heat waving up from the pavementthe thin & frightened girl, wild-eyed,
weighing in for chemotherapyrecliner chairs and IV stands
row after rowpalm trees recently pruned
looking entirely artificiala different mother, the consequence
of some spontaneous transformationparchment skin, brittle bones,
charcoal bruises beneath the eyesplaster rabbits, plastic geese,
rubber dinosaurs on a green gravel lawnunfamiliar flowers, thick and brilliant
fleshy plants with thorny warningswaiting rooms, benches, vinyl walls
petals on the surface of the pond
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