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Near enough to but not inside of  Kenosha and entirely forgotten  by all records              seven–thousand and eighty-two plastic eggs compress because Jeremiah Bumthwaite      (age seven)     has a sloppy swandive

Some nights, the train rattles off the nightstand, following its tracks to the termite-chewed boards beneath our sleep. I have dreamed my friend a face

After the catastrophe, Persephone craves apples, dreams of them, ripe green and gold and crimson, imagines the first tart bite, juice fleeing down her chin.

Roll, roll, roll deep thunder— patient storm. 

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