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Measuring a Corn Field
The whole world I can measure in this cornfield.
Why would I need
to go to Indiana or Pennsylvania
or Katmandu?

Ohio is right here, and the rattling gold of the corn is here.
Yes Indiana has its rustic temples...

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Categories: surpassingly, poetry,
Form: Free verse



I Once Was the Ruler of Rome
I was placed by my peers as a Consul of Rome,
Teeming city it was that I'd always called home.
My fair wife was a slave I'd seen fit to set free,
But she chose to instead make...

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Categories: surpassingly, best friend, betrayal, blessing, character, city, community,
Form: Quatrain
My Grandmother's Ruby Ring
Did not filter
down to me
who wanted it.  I
was not as great a beauty 
as my mother, one
of 8 my grandmother
birthed: 2 daughters
made the cut.
My mother in sepia 
light of an old 
photograph is seated
at...

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Categories: surpassingly, desire,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs