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Hi, I notice there is a paucity of fulsome reviews lately. So I have decided to Be the Change. 

I'm gonna do 5 max effort crits to try to reset the norms. Let me know if you have something you want read in detail. 

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Air of Water
Pondering the perfect month,
I raise my glass to question heaven
I know not of sky tied seats,
or the annum each evening
I might revel in taming the breeze, 
if heaven wasn’t haunting, 
so icy
Leaping in lunar shadow,
I cast my own
It won’t supersede camaraderie

You step into a pavilion, painted rose
One s...

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So Now It’s Official (senryu)
So Now It’s Official (senryu)

“Male, female, other?”
HR asked me. “Idiot!”
I answered; she typed.

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RIP Wendell Berry
The Peace

Ran into Wendell Berry
in my sleep, we talked all night.
He says it’s peaceful, quiet now
in his “permanent world”
beyond the chaparral of bitterness
that passes for a life. The farmer finds himself
at ease, he lays back in the leaves beside Walt Whitman
with his chest wide open, spitting seeds
and dreams...

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Spring
Spring

Death is everywhere.
The running does no good.
A mother holds a baby to her breast,
in twenty years
he wraps his grown-up hands around her neck
and wrings it like a rag. He likes the way it feels
to feel the life exit her body, how she looks at him
with tenderness
that almost makes him stop.

Men...

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