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LILLIAN AFF

journey

there's great tranquility in
traversing a

great...

Broca's Area

is, and, the, but
stroke of bad luck...

​

shades of green

the river mouth in Jenner
is shimmering like a youthful steelhead
yanked from the water on a fishing line
and I am following the river down
highway 1 through the cradle of Kashia

Variation on a Theme by Mary Oliver

I caught a lot of bugs back then, or, 
what I thought were bugs—roly polies,
the only terrestrial crustaceans
adapted to live on land alone

Russian River

​​I lay in the daytime lantern
rocks and branches and bugs
poke into my back
the book is the lampshade
I look for someone to return to
in those pages of her
I look up: no one is around

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