William Stobb Poems

On 20th between Madison and Ferry
a line of municipal maples binds the community
to an orderly, serviceable beauty. Platforms
from which our sparrows and starlings
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polluted by thinking like
the whole truth and nothing
I see slides under charged wire
one awkward calf along
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don't forget the friend off five
weeks in silent meditation
late flowers your brother
had a birthday and you're due notice
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not a phase January thinking
broke me dog next door out for a pee
someone's little laugh
after she's shown living things once thinking
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The illusion of privacy in the actual text
nowhere but everywhere
in the mind a concept even
buying certain fruits as an effort to
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