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The casino, slop, and touching grass

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one out of season morning, we went out looking for a name. We did not know where names make their lairs, whether they favour rock, dirt, twigs, or wires.

Sometimes this terrified love swooped inches from your face, and you wondered if it would peck your eyes out. Who kept these birds? Why did they?

If Erd can translate either “Earth” or “ground,” does German also have one single word for English “sky” and “Heaven”?

We’re mooing and braying with laughter, moving in slo-mo, such fun. His little jeans, his striped t-shirt over his drumlike child’s tummy.

She found it in the trash next to a table covered with cards. “You are so mean,” she said.

I see her hands cup a grasshopper. I see her sweep with pine needle brooms. Can you smell the lilacs, purple and white?

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