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older
lying on Venice Beach reading The Stranger, which i read in college which was ten years ago. i squint through the sun at all these bodies and the skin around my eyes creases. it folds into an origami seagull and flies over all the bodies stretching and rippling and flexing and shining.
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the big green kite
a big green kite. a little boy chasing a big green kite on the beach as his father flies it like a skilled pilot. it dives, shoots back up. the kid lunges for it but it’s always just out of reach. he laughs when he misses. the Santa Monica mountains loom over me and the…
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pinwheels
your aunt sends me a video of you galloping in cowboy boots on the sidewalk. you’ve just left your mother at the hospital but you don’t seem sad. you’re too young for that. now, you gallop in your dress and cowboy boots. your reddish blonde hair bounces as you gallop. there are colorful pinwheels stuck…