Heidi Lynn Staples

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Is a whole in one a golf marriage?
Going the distance. A gopher marriage?
I don't know. An agnostic marriage?
No. An antagonistic marriage?
...

How nice it is to be broken!
Because really, it's no abuse prettifying, one isn't au pair of sex till
broken
into is one?
...

What makes a man, makes amends,
She said, as she pooled the deep's up higher.
What wakes a woman, wakes the ends
Of the birth, he said, as he pooled balm.
...

I was on a fragmented seeming toward
like a little child with no documents inside.
We'd just fallen through place, the far one,
...

Dear time.
Dear time in dear life, dim lock forged.
Mind's auger, so blind why dear time.
...

Who will grow thirst? Whose will will stand breathe cry beside the bade as the ever
takes their other over? He is the best lore I'm feverish glad. There is a red hot ever
between us.
...

...to have been things among things between themselves and all others who live...
...to travel widely beyond the seas...
...to arrive one half king, one half informer...
...to appear o how atrocious soever...
...

I was barn. I was razed.

I was mot this flame with no's sum else blue's blame noir yearning down the
...

What happened after you lapsed into soiree?
I threaded I was through of them.
What happened after you lapsed into soiree?
Then one day, I unheld them to quiet swelling.
...

..a time. a tumble. autumn as ode to angle tangle.
awesome ya'll the ungreening. warm as sun nostalgia. then as whooosh.
who's shushing? air is to tree as water is to rock....
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Bitter brother husband in other room
Wishes she's off,
What she'll she shove him?
Groan grit teeth and mutter.
...

She wed so with an inchoate knowledge of the incidental cacophony of hills.
She asked to be called "inchoate". I said "Ache & Co."
With the rift of only came other. I spread the extra honey on my feet.
...

o let's go for our sun say drive,
land wet a honking foil'll gleamingly geese.
you'll thrive on the thrive
...

and of your cream-cheese of the street's breeze
Something about parks
how you paid owned the water, paid
owned a stone in the water,
...

Heidi Lynn Staples Biography

Heidi Lynn Staples (1971) is a U.S. experimental writer. Her debut collection, Guess Can Gallop (New Issues, 2004) won the New Issues Poetry Prize.[citation needed] She is also the author of Dog Girl (Ahsahta, 2007)and Take Care Fake Bear Torque Cake, A Memoir, which includes her illustrations (Caketrain, 2012). Her poetry has appeared in the Best American Poetry, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Ploughshares, Women's Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere. Along with the poet Amy King, she co-founded Poets for Living Waters, an international response to the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Writing Center Director at Piedmont College in Athens, Georgia. In the fall of 2014, she will join the faculty of the University of Alabama.)

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Aching Common Sense

Is a whole in one a golf marriage?
Going the distance. A gopher marriage?

I don't know. An agnostic marriage?
No. An antagonistic marriage?

I wonder, what makes a good marriage?
A not no such thing goose egg marriage?

Stick out your neck. A giraffe marriage?
Pouring out your heart. A carafe marriage?

My mother wed. A he's gone marriage.
Made of me maid of agon marriage.

Can't believe my eyes. Agog marriage?
Here's looking at you! A grog marriage?

I've hinged May's aim to Staples. Who's that?
Playing with heart. A gambol marriage?

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