From NO, I WILL BE IN THE WOODS by Michelle Taransky...



WAITING FOR THE PERMISSION TO CONSIDER THE VIEW

You left me— in your house
Looking like a tight ship. It was then
A fire went unnoticed. I call to see
If the woods is not the world.
Tell me, "I cannot picture any worse
Fall." I worried this began differently.
A hundred and four years ago, the woodcutter
Met a description of how much you might
Agree to tolerate. Sentences not told
Apart or done in order to connect
Previously eliminated errors of thanks
Thanking you for balancing acts
Despite known pictures of that tree.
Worry. The injury was hard on me,
Too, it was. Far too quiet to ask
Questions. You have the whole book,
Or nothing, like we are counting against
The grain. We are addicted to evidence.


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WE HID IN A

Woods like a woods
is the last robber
ship. How to define
an approach after an approach
that changes. The current
and its anticipation
circling the clamor
clamor to await
a witness and his
dictionary. Both
a cross made
from the particular
trees sold by dividing
chair and axe
into ash


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