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hopeless roofjohn martone
samuddo / ocean
2013
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hopeless roof
copyright 2013 john martonesamuddo / ocean
johnmartone@gmail.comisbn 978-1-304-30467-4
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hopeless roof
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mcm
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gammathe garden gets away from him
geologic timevindauga or wind-eye
hopeless roofclone
teaselbox turtle (2013)
refugegottfried zinn
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gamma
light lls your handwritings loopslight lls your body
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the retinas a sail
infrared
even as you lie there sleeping
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a frequency
at which the body is see-thru
they hammer togethera wooden stairsyou read about photons
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shouting vulgarities
a roofer stands in the light
its weeding or roong these days & both
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photons
the pea owerswhiteness
photons
you pickpea pods
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the winds direction today all those photons
in a photonin the lightmore light
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wouldnt mindjust beingphotons
gamma rays
right thrumirror
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a gamma ray burst lights up all you cant see this
your bodythis room
this roomfull of light
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radish plantsshot to seed overnight
you climb the roof
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the garden gets away from him
mandalayour yellow wallits the age of sunowers
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curcubit& wild grapesentangle
shoulderto shoulderlettuce
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peace of mind
one step backall along
the garden gets away from him
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corn tassels
eyeglass stems
rabbits eethru square stemmedpeppermint
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the wire fence no help for small rabbits
you lay down your pen & cut more bean poles
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pistils & stamensturn human daylily salad
dayliliesnow
&anyday
morningglories
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geologic time
summer solstice
theres alsoa chainsaw
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summer solstice
no less
cutting backrhododendron
rhododendron rootsall the way backto the 1950s
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touch the earth& you grow rootsrhododendron
under rhododendronsyour own limbs neither
thicker nor thinner
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legs foldedrhododendronunder rhododendron
rhododendrons& motherthose mountains
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glacial morainerhododendrons& people age
summer solstice
no less
bundlingbushwood
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time comes no moreup & downcellar stairs
white painton a cellar wallsummer solstice
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three lifetimes
a broken pick-handletheir genome
you dig in glacial morainebegonias go back
to the pliocene
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planting impatiens
on new guinea they have500 tongues
planting impatiens
in 6 months comingto nothing
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after the graveyard
sailboats tackingyou keep to this road
headstones
sailboats
my
shapes
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from her grave to the airport one hour
in soil-caked shoes you wait for a ight
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now theyre gone queen annes lace
touches the roof-line
seashell
picturehis room
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ca. 1953
bare feet on beach
her little dancethe holocene
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vindauga or wind-eye
summerhe tears outold windows
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not too old
pulling outsuch windows
you tear out windows from inside the house
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wearing glovespulling glass from sasheverything hovers
a window shatters onto owering mint
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second skin
window-glass dust you sparkle at last
1924
sash-stopspulley-ropes &the lost
counter-weights
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those torn-outwindowsyour problem
you put in new windows for strangers
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one last look the void that holdsa new window
waspsabound arounda new window
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a new window
now you cansleep here
precise as telescopes double-hung windows
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each double-hung window a map of the prairie
his new window
hummingbird restson a coneower
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windows all aroundyoure still inside
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hopeless roof
standingon roof
feelingat sea
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cant ndwhere
roofs leakstarts
so tear
it alloff
old roofmother
was justforty
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old roof
todayno roof
shinglestar& tar
paperall
tocover
a wood-knot
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termite-dust
imagine that
galvanized
roong nailsthat boyhood!
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afterwards lookfor roong nailsin the hydrangea
tar
paper
unrollslike
any
protein
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you unroll tarpaper & stand confused
tarpaper
guidelinesfor cursive!
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roof-ashing
ashing
roof-tarhominid
beholdthis
cabbagewhite
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65 million yearsyour skinroof tar
roof tar
sky soblue
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roof tar
who were you?
tarring the roof
a g tree down therehas one fruit
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roof tarcant drawne lines
daddy long-legs
steps aroundroof tar
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shingleselvage
alwayshidden
ten thousand
roong nails look around
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tarring the roofyou watch the planesy seaward
lightheaded
hot workheartutters
its sucha roof
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paintthinner
to cleanup
after
tarringa roof
my dear
van gogh
moon abovehopeless roofdream or no
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split rail fence outlasting their roof
summer
a split-rail fence namely home
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utteringare you
heartlittle
birdlost in
meying
thru thislight
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clone
fteen clay pots same jade plant each
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my fteen jade plants bend like my sunowers
with two arms youre a jade plant
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arthritic thumbs the jade plants arealways green
a jade plants thumbsclose the eyesof countless dead
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having no roots the jade plant is human
hearing themnail a roof
you studythis jade plant
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being hopelessturning intoa jade plant
van goghs ear
youre shapinga jade plant
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in this whole houseonly a jade plants
perfect
whereverit is
jade plantsthe center
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jade plant root of my tongue
making myselfvery smallunder a jade plant
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which pronounto use jade plant
jade plantuvula hope for this human
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windy you heara jade plant
my thousand-armedquan am a jade plant
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theres only one seasonsucculent
jade plant
galaxies
around the housethose jade plants
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you never see this jade plant ower
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teasel
teasel
summers
gearbox
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grain elevatorsovershadow us
teasel
buttery perches on a teasel spine
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teasel
nothings nota spine
pincushion& pins the sameteasel
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lonely
every compass points a teasel bract
all those spinesbut teaselstems hollow
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hollow stemmidsummer teaselthatthirst
egg-shapeteasel tops areegg-shape
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teasel time
cb antennason pickup trucks
cutting teasel for home & cockleburscling to my boots
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must have been butteriesbefore you wereteasel
pulling outa delicate thornteasel ower
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box turtle (2013)
rotting leavesbecome you
box turtle
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your bedroommy bedroom
box turtle
never see
your shells patternbox turtle
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falling behindyour whole lifebox turtle
box turtle(but no-shellme)
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always take youfor the same
box turtle
box turtlein all the world theres justone human
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boxturtle
mylantern
didnt ask to be a box turtle
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box turtlelling upall that space
eyelids toodelicatebox turtles
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box turtleedge of thisravine
inside out all a dreambox turtle
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box turtle people wanta story
box turtlein your previous lifea frog
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carapace
others havewing feathers
box turtlemoleculesfolding up
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just one mindturtle shellspider web
the softestskin scales toobox turtle
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if theres no truthin telepathy
box turtle
box turtle& hes in hismud boots
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refuge
even these defective eyespure joycumulus
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juniper treeunder cumulushis bare face
cumulusall those eyeglass lenses
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just one treeabove the corn
junipercumulus
you prunethe juniper& a cumulus changes
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juniper branches a cumulus reaches out
juniper tree rooting yourself in a cumulus
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imagine that
caves in a cumulus refuge
cumulus sky
unreachablebraille
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the frog& lake in one cumulus
night falls tooin a cumulusin a juniper
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juniper branches glass vasejuniper roots clay potthat cumulus
this innite night a cumulus
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cumulusa path thatno one takes
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gottfried zinn
cause & effect
forgot youd plantedzinnias
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when everything elsegoes wild
your symmetryzinnia
just-so
zinniapetals
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60 yearsto grow thiszinnia
opposite leaveshairy stem whod guesszinnia
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bald foolslotuszinnia
paint-speckedzinniacome home
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fresh waterin this vase
one zinnia
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