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Sonnets in the Curtilage [Here is a church...]

by L Beckett

 

             Sonnets in the Curtilage [Here is a church...]  I draw with pentecostal hands,   with skein of digits, the roef, the steap laid plans like R. Moses who riptide aside the ring   finger. Quick print with the squelch of young prying open sweaty doors and: See! all the “unpeople”  to whom, to who, hu? to what BodyCam articulates whats different. Whats  the same fugly hearth. What things are nothings.  What folks are eggs broke. What ghetto  the nursery rhymes about. What images are true testimony, cyanotypie levitated from the mock-up,   vision and virtue test. I which cover by fists  of hands, slotted out. Halftoning interpersonal.



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