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what will be picked up or left unbothered half a styrofoam cup
winds up supine on a front lawn taking up residency for half
a millennium give or take music whirling around all
the time when is it the sky jangling outloud its own rhythm
wind moving whatever it wants the wind does what
it pleases in an egoless way
its admirable really the cars all getting driven around
running on dinosaur bones rolling over whatever was there
before asphalt so
much made in shadow or out
of substantiated claims how the wind works or the orange of a
leaf twisting downward onto a car
not being driven the silent land makes a lovely sound to have
the right kind of ears or
antennae a television
can replicate it often massive temptation
to give in let them win
to lose track
of all small ripples of good
that cruise through the watery universe
an energy like how it rained
and stopped and now in the
urban setting the cars moan a
gushy slosh from
the teeny ravines from sky now
puddled on streets the streetlights might
be confused for
little halos with
some generosity or
pessimism depending like
a cramping hand the trees‘ branches arc strangely splitting
up and up

Franklin K.R. Cline is the author of So What and The Beatles’ Second Album, both published by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press. An enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, he is an educator in Kansas City, Missouri, where he lives with Six and Olivia.

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