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Umbel a blizzard 

                       in each rhubarb stuck stalk, 
for I no longer herald their swing to 
flamingo legs. 
                  Shot from the half dark 
diamonds that waive their away; I've pressured 
blitzen in those who have quit their fission, 
knowing still lets the solar unshatter 
the shady half. 

                   Mynah Nomore, 
                                       your beat- 
empty organs mite madness our porching 
possibilities; once standing and smooching, 
you now tempt the worms looting. 
                                            Mine above 
the grounded; my beat-plenty organs amp 
cupids to you. 
                  I'm perennially in 
croon, I'm left and unpruned, I'm here hushing 
on a whiteout to lose direction from you.

--

Catherine Blauvelt

Read the conversation between Mary Crockett Hill and Catherine Blauvelt

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