Best Free State Poems

I read people's minds
I know why you lust for me
Back in the free state
You fire my imagination
We'll be together forever...

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A cold free state night
When you ask to hold me tight
My blood runs cold...

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The hollow remains unphotographed.
Memory, not landscape, frames it—
a road cleaving winter in two,
children laughing while gravity
negotiated its own terms.

Neighbors spoke without flourish.
Their kindness was practical,
never advertised, always assumed.
You could leave your grief
on the porch overnight;
someone would tuck it in
and leave bread beside it
by morning.

Coal knew...

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