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hopeless roofjohn martone

samuddo / ocean

2013


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hopeless roof

copyright 2013 john martonesamuddo / ocean

[email protected] 978-1-304-30467-4
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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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