NOMINAL ANOMALY

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long hours with smashed anxiety as it hitches

1 barbecue smoke kids on their bicycles blurred camera film
no sleep chessboard the breath

mass of snarled
rusted pickup in the turn of overtaken convenience store,
2 cables and tangled shattered glass
the parking lot the seasons radio nearly out of use
wires

deliberately
scowl of the whip of the wind gossip in the anthill without
3 overlooked scratches ··· ––– ···
barbed-wire fence overhead hallways its queen
littering the ground

vibrant color train boxcar, a warehouse rigged

4 lone pine bleeding ink pen rare vase
on the wall locked shut to collapse

a device with many

where the woods piquant smalltown deer in the cellular reception
5 circle of chalk gauges and dials,
meets the town charm headlights (spotty at best)
all numbered

signal from the black ichor, mug of green tea, blue-white light
6 empty rabbit hutch schoolyard rumor
stereo wires petrifying and cold gone cold outside the window

expanse of desert
something in friendly face in a
1 lapse in judgement meddling journalist messy business that goes for
the sewers sea of strangers
miles

old poster ripped busted arcade lost satellite orbiting motion in the
2 pushpins and twine burning ash
off the walls machine across the sky alleyway

stiff drink at the

wormwood and regrets that you don’t the banter of a
3 a tip-off a concealed package bartender’s
yarrow need to remember bummed cigarette
recommendation

flashlight’s beam
immaculate sickly scent of needlepoint, high stakes,
4 skeptic’s suit cutting through
recordkeeping weedkiller beautiful and deadly low profile
the forest

a cost to knife on the moonlight obscured

5 rear window exit fireworks overhead symphony of static
martyrdom chopping block by the clouds

gas station out

devilish pot familiar taste
6 ceramic shard the ones who watch in the middle of uncracked enigma
of coffee of fear
nowhere

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a tribute to those
sirensong of hot soup at the end lighthouse cutting
1 who lived here beachcombers fishing by spear
choppy waters of a cold day through fog
before us

wind-worn
sunset ripple nautilus — relic of
2 crow’s nest jellyfish daydream figurehead
coming in reflection this land’s history
at the prow

marriage of cultures,
rattle from raised the last of those hole-in-the-wall merchant trading
3 vibrant and flashy wave organ
anchor chain who dive noodle joint outpost
and loud

hidden inlet, single swimming

migrants arriving a crowd forming on
4 side entrance city of gulls bright sundress figure on the
by ship the cobblestones
to the bay horizon

laughing children weary dockhands the edge of boardwalk

5 fishers of men sailors’ shanty
in the sand unloading cargo the world delight

whale hunters
red skies at cheap commodity ships dashed on
6 faultline tremor dashed on the rope-calloused hands
morning tourism jagged stone
rocks

glimpse of the
the hilliest part sparse drygrass no road to sharp fin cutting
1 crustacean gentry neighboring
of town dotting the dunes the shore through the surf
islands

gently used bright parasol down

2 plein air painters heavy work boots flash of feathers lazy summer sun
paperback the lane

rickety wooden
whispers of barrels of spice,
3 stairway down sea legs coasting to the coast tossed driftwood
the deep put to good use
to the beach

reunion with the the woman who

sizzling lightning the slippery crack mysterious
4 ocean when the time stands out on the swash and buckler
storm of shellfish tentacle
is right rocks every day

endless mirror hope at the end slow cantina

5 snagged netting natural ebb and flow kelp forest
to the sky of the jetty afternoon

submerged an open window

sun-warmed breath of life
6 local delicacy tea stone statue; with the waves
sand dollar underwater
a memorial rolling outside

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slicked bright
drowning in a neuron
1 visual artifacts unnatural glow colors on matte clatter of keys
sea of binary supercluster
black

beautiful,
familiar the distant the dawn of radio-wave
2 intangible neon howl
start-up jingle year 2000 a new era assassination
sky geometry

petals of a courier with the

penthouse heedless
3 sugar fizz electric soda digital rose most up-to-date
monopoly devil rabbit hole
garden news

abandoned city, distributing

indistinct industrial-grade
4 shrine to the arcade lightning means of access virus contract
from magic supercomputers
past to the many

desperate, metroplex
hidden firewall missing link ethics of the
5 dangerous new high score overrun by
escape between clues outcasts
glitch-beast polygon vectors

synthetic voice hacker with too

unrestricted sparks on the
6 where there was arid tunnels much time on swarm of bugs
code server floor
nothing before her hands

fuzzy static
steam rising off omni-potent any port in blue screen
1 across the font of wisdom
a microprocessor security optic a storm of death
screen

protest by way unavoidable

switchboard the discarded rows upon rows
2 of collective brand-name pixel avatar
siblings one of punch-cards
action adware

countless
a game that raw, unfiltered lamentations of missing signal,
3 console cowpoke answers at your
two can play information the machine god bizarre response
fingertips

read-only
two men in surfing the ERROR 404:
4 memories, devil's bargain the labyrinth
a garage tide of data file not found
forgotten

others out there

holographic cat-and-mouse archive
5 mass shutdown glamour boutique in the online
fashion idol pursuit of the gods
wastes

digitized
stifling artifice of scrape of metal
6 street food oracle oculus broken program
anonymity intelligence against metal
vendors

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 the arts district
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a toast to those destination

multicolored quicksilver and aunties haggling jazz head on a
1 who have been getaway for
bucket fountain lace in the market stalls rock body
forgotten the soul

scrap metal
clean clip of incandescent backroom sugar-sweet
2 true connection humor, sharp
trimmed hedges nightclub cyan disagreements toothache
and metallic

the impossible unexpected a girl alone inexhaustible font

3 autumn cardigans gentle fern
question convenience in her field of energy

intricate,
summertime curve of stylish
4 indecipherable irons in the fire a man in a mask battery tang
on our walls draped overhangs
tattoo

manticore grin,
street fair; karaoke on botanical rattle of the
5 all smoke and the scent of ink
street fare your breath invitation radiator
no flame

everyone more
afternoon hunt smooth to
6 corner busker grassroots protest fashionable flirty café lights
for a bargain the touch
than you

the irresistible
restless dogwalker the ones we glassblower's rooftop
1 urgency of the paper tango
spirit displace dream fog-chasers
present tempest

wedding technicolor
a kiss, given in wicker-woven
2 between night fresh raspberries pop-culture needle spindle
an underpass flower baskets
and day tearoom

darkness brought
statue of our burning wood, brilliant red gate the cusp of true,
3 to sudden life fingertip ash
laughter brick oven guarded by lions unbridled wonder
by soft gold glow

tray of drinks,
misplaced the freedom laundry hung an ace up ice bucket on the
4 all being swilled
camera reel to drift out to dry your sleeve sidewalk's edge
in their glasses

weight too heavy

cedar and newspaper
5 tenacious spirit pocket stone for a lonesome airport roar
sandalwood clippings
wanderer

tuning of a a gallery of painted circle whining

6 iron relic – a fossil standing ovation
mandolin’s strings extraordinary size of stones microphone

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 Idyll Fable
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smoking jacket
warm autumn anything to stop foolish cacophony
1 grist for the mill and comfortable oars’ steady creak
cider that awful racket of an auto-mobile
slippers

house of
where the willow afternoon jar
2 shepherd’s crook knowledge, with necklace gift begrudging oxcart
tree sighs of marmalade
vaulted ceilings

headmaster
the congregation player-troupe’s breathtaking rushing twin reeds
3 home, sweet home teaching her
of a motley crew mournful ballad orchard bloom of the oboe
young wards

hand-baked bread
clink of copper the good graces roaring fire when sentimental
4 and a sausage black-slick rain
coin of a stranger the snow falls whippoorwill
wrapped in paper

worn boots under

trumpet blasting sanctity of the washer-man traveling tinsmith;
5 the weathered turgid river
across the field lightning-bugs and his clothespins an artisan crafter
cobblestones

empty tin can a hand-painted

closed eyes as the disarming charm
6 hymn of the forest at the side flower crowns signpost guiding
soft mist rises of a local cutpurse
of the road us together

early morning
new roll of blithe, deceptive the gossip
1 unshaken faith golden foxwine work on the
fishing twine denial of frogs
rice paddies

bicycle kicking maps spread

the tuning of a coal to stoke a dance, on the
2 up dust on the cricket melody across the floor
small guitar the forge floor of a barn
dirt path and walls

the collective
growing shadows;
3 lantern bonfire stickleg scarecrow copse upon a hill justice of the plow raising of a new
soft, but long
foundation

oak dresser and

a beautiful woman, name lost on the
4 string of idle rumor corn husk doll vanity, locked shut terra firma
draped all in silver tip of your tongue
for now

iron teakettle
wine-drunk on sheaf of papers, ciderwick
5 singing its honeycomb rascal baptism by smoke
the moon slightly burnt candlewax
boiling point

cold, winter-wolf sunset falling dew budding on orange picking

6 tweed jacket hollow snowfall
hunger across the fields midnight saplings amid the chatter

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