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Poetry by Gram Hummell

I Need to Go Outside Permanently

I’m in one of those dreams
one leg shorter
Tome-split isotope
a poem-sanded varicose line
Lamp-lit fire eyes that blink
The sonorous sighs
Again, uncover
Friends light-linked
and rend the wind
Again, uncover

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How does the snow know
to fall evenly
across all scenes
The road is choked with uncles
who fling ice into blue air

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The soul is a gland you express
by kissing the human apparatus
I want to open the screenless window
Large french panes
Onto a fresh morning

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On the train, I had to learn to drink water
Again for the first time
Passing now a Greek restaurant
called Eons…
I love that
Sidereal and long

Gram Hummell

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