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		<description>The original writings of author Dalton</description>
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			<title>pugio</title>
			<description>trembling jawtremblingchewing food's memoryrememberingempty candlestickssit loudly on this tablethe wicks and waxdemand silence in their drawerstomach turningfrom last week's rancid mealyet this mouth waits openfamine and nausea congealfrigid handsforceps to a cadaverreach out, pleadingempty air abs..</description>
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			<title>H.H.</title>
			<description>The pathos peels here:creeks of the hearts door.A red hinge opens fear;In the hallway we adore Into this home we'd move,only mere months ago.Our fate and efforts prove,we unlock what we sow.Lesser lovers were dissuadedby the ghouls we entertained. But these kids were persuade..</description>
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			<title>To the Power of</title>
			<description>Infinity, infinity--where our headsand bodies restlay ourdivinity.</description>
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			<title>Museum</title>
			<description>All your artefacts and residuebottle caps and wrappers too:thus,significance of the insignificant.I am the curator and recipientof all your grand little things,and the euphoria which springsfrom them. </description>
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			<title>000</title>
			<description>000</description>
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			<title>February, Mid-morning</title>
			<description>The silent suburban streetsAre compromised by furnace chatterSnow banks, alive ---nestled in sheetsI'm prying this void, grasping for matter.</description>
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			<title>After My Last Drink</title>
			<description>I want to tear you offlike the arms of my black jean jacket.Our love was not enough;I stitched your heart on my sleeve.In dead-sure whispers, I say:&quot;this trouble is but a process&quot;;seeing pictures past, I pray:&quot;this struggle is such progress&quot;.While dancing to our tune,I grasp my..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dalton/1747849/</link>
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			<title>Burgundy</title>
			<description>Precedents of 'Impetum'. </description>
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			<title>To Linger</title>
			<description>O, bliss abound,thy resonant sound;keep me in your chatter.O, moderato moans,pulsing blood - cracking bones;I shut my eyes and listen.O, gray monologue:A midnight melted in fog;you submerse us in the present.O, silk river,which overflows and quivers;let me be thy brook-bo..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dalton/1744888/</link>
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			<title>worth while</title>
			<description>This heart is dissectedwith a stilleto of words,And peace is puncturedBy a musket of meaningLove was always simple.But yet it simply fleeted my comprehension.I was a cold stone,dry ice, in a lukewarm bath.All my other lover's taught methat love is self-martyrdomWhen it's questi..</description>
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			<title>Ragged Masts and the Shore</title>
			<description>A point of clarity-nobility vs. asperity-indeed, there is a fin you losein love perished. Lo, you chooseto dwell in that howling hook-point injuryorrise from the water pyre without thine incendiary.Alack, roosting with rancouronly rusts sanity's anchor.Woe, I know there will fore..</description>
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			<title>Amoureux</title>
			<description>&quot;What gesture of grandeurmay I summon for you?&quot;I asked myself unduly.In my heart de rigueur,the crimson clots imbued.My veins beat unruly.O muse, O destroyer,O creator of my love:I never, ever concealed;O my blessingO my low and above:let my ardor be revealed.The deep dec..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dalton/1723573/</link>
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			<title>Miserere</title>
			<description>Deep in the fats, The salt stings the holeUnder my spats, a nail stabs my sole.A heart is dissectedwith a stilleto of words.My peace is puncturedI grasp for all your past complimentsAs if they were sterile bandagesThey stop the bleeding for a momentBut no cotton compliment..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dalton/1720674/</link>
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			<title>A Crystalline Meadow</title>
			<description>I was gatherkng sticksand blue fruits in the dawnI wandered past a meadowOf an emerald calmI paused for a momentnonchalantly, I gazed and stood.Lo, the omenknelt in the charcoal woods.Therein the brush appeared a mirror so tallthat I dropped that basketand my berries began ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dalton/1711083/</link>
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			<title>Wholly</title>
			<description>Blessed are the frill-less mattes:a shrine of canvassed stone,whose round parts are their flats -the warmth of brush and bone.What good is there to waltzwith a willow laced in brass?Harlequins of hot bronzedance in the shining grass.Platinum plating glowsThe steel starts to ema..</description>
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			<title>Miserere</title>
			<description>Suicide looms in the residueof steel parts,may it uncoil the tethered barrelof my heart.The must of mortem liesin the chamber dark.&quot;This magazine sings for thou&quot;;I hark.A ripe miragetaunts me at the pew.By god I do nothingand by Nothing I'm new.O, skin peeled back,fle..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dalton/1707815/</link>
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			<title>Ruby</title>
			<description>Milk thistle quartzyour sun silhouette thwartsoff my enmity, periland pestilent supports &quot;EXIST&quot;, O they sprayedon that viaduct slab;we perch on the cornerstoneand we gab.I am glee by the gulley,where the loam land is sully.A row boat goeswhere the arroyo flows;our shad..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dalton/1705218/</link>
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			<title>Nude</title>
			<description>A track of terpene reeksin the frantic air.An aroma of acetone speaksfrom the wood stripped bare.This solvent serenity denudes our deciduous despair.The caustic calm baptisesour romantic affair.These two licks of lumber may be lineal, if only they dare.Our ethanol euphoria is..</description>
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			<title>Impetum</title>
			<description>The ticking of the wall clockechoes around the hallway.My molten moment is here;the future freezes in fray.I think about all that is unravelled nowand the unwinding onslaught of a nigh day.Lo I feel something ugly culminate. Howhas our beauty becometh decay?The burgundy blind,w..</description>
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			<title>Cumbersome Lumber</title>
			<description>O this feeling: woe in my gut.I lay and lurch intwilight, thy rutI am a carpenter, steadfast to planeany wood with purpose.Though I sit with my calm chisel,my hands are nervous.They shake and waneon this cabinet I frame.They splinter in vein.O sawdust of bane.Let me upr..</description>
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			<title>Decadence Deep</title>
			<description>Blessed be thine every suffering,like the black breath of a vestal coal miner.Begone O desire for any buffering.Like the soot seeped lung, I keep thy liner.Blessed be thine only ruby acquired.This afternoon, I remember the morning sky.Begone O stone, you're all-too-desired.&quot;In my han..</description>
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			<title>Must and Melancholy</title>
			<description>A gray mass sowsin a state of short breath.Suicide dines onsoliloquies of death.Dischord knells froma guitar string's rust.Thy fallow fugue fracturesmy ethos' crust.Stability suffers sweetly inthe parlour room of treason.Betrayal is but the sour scentin a dreary draft of re..</description>
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			<title>Song of the Storm Sublime</title>
			<description>I&amp;rsquo;m nestled in the marigold mosswatching these clouds elopeand evading a chance to tossunto any solemn hope.White and black ivory keyscoax the piano strings.We fulfill feeling anew;the aquifer melody rings.My pianist fingers swiftly movewith a lightning tempo.I think of your glorious grooves;I..</description>
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			<title>Bergamot</title>
			<description>The silent, unseen muskis an alluvion to my dry bedroom.Douse my heart in thy bergamot,and then dip me in thy fume.Whilst swooning in this scent of her,which saturates the air,the sombre state which I preferhas switched without my care.Fractals of your radiant voicedrift from your lipstick mouth.A b..</description>
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