a series of Japanese poems
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Sand-polished black glass
Sea gull skeleton picked clean
shares shore with driftwood
Homeless people eat and sleep
in harbor of city dump
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Glass thermometer
beside bottle of aspirin
Perfect attendance
Roadside giraffe splays
flesh imprisoned by food chain
African lions
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Cow on bed of sage
stares dead center at bright sun
Bull's eye of buzzards
After the snowfall
trees wear white while flowers frost
May in Montana
