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No grief goes unrelieved - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"

The grey & snarling scene of my dissociating pack - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"

As we bounce and flex in time - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"

Our years of moons change us into beings viable - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"

The element we cry out to breathe - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"

I listen often to the voices of the dead - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"

After over a hundred lifetimes of summers of honey - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"

Who set out orchard rows of nectarplants to bloom - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"

Then break the combs out of their dark - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"

Decant the honey heavy & flowery - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"

Hunger for honey scalds if satisfied - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"

Because I've been eating honey right from the spoon - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"

Long after one love has gone to seed - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"

Changes the throat of a speaker till it aches - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"

Of the outland honeyed universe - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"

But praise the ripening cure of language - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"

Which plays among questions and answers - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"

Something smaller and more human than belief - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"

Some reason to read these thick omens as good - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"

Between me and the world of presences I have lost - Marie Ponsot "Imagining Starry"

Coherent for luck to come across - Marie Ponsot "Imagining Starry"

A mental orrery implicit with stars in active orbit - Marie Ponsot "Imagining Starry"

Only their slowness or swiftness lost to sense - Marie Ponsot "Imagining Starry"

Becomes the infinite air of imagination - Marie Ponsot "Imagining Starry"

That stirs immense among losses - Marie Ponsot "Imagining Starry"

And leaves me less desolate - Marie Ponsot "Imagining Starry"

To speak against the daily sinking flame - Marie Ponsot "Imagining Starry"

The shrinking waters of the mortal sea - Marie Ponsot "Imagining Starry"

On the road home the tide is rising - Marie Ponsot "Rain All Night, Paris"

Drowning must wait till I get there - Marie Ponsot "Rain All Night, Paris"

But it's not safe to stand still - Marie Ponsot "Rain All Night, Paris"

In a skiff on a sunrisen lake we are watchers - Marie Ponsot "Springing"

Swimming aimlessly is luxury - Marie Ponsot "Springing"

Walking loudly up a shallow stream - Marie Ponsot "Springing"

As we lean over the deep well, we whisper - Marie Ponsot "Springing"

Meet on beaches drawn to the one wet sea - Marie Ponsot "Springing"

A self without walls, with surface tension - Marie Ponsot "Springing"

Specific gravity a local exchange between bedrock and cloud - Marie Ponsot "Springing"

Rising to fall, falling to rise - Marie Ponsot "Springing"


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