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Avery Burns – from Ambulatory Refrains


Avery Burns

from Ambulatory Refrains

i am

willing

to move over

if you

are

————

chuff
air between things

buildings
lips

a color
as name

befits the equations residual
of distance & vacuum

————

scratch scratch

sanded speech

softens condition

————

handprints in snow

last place hello

————

space

between

unfilled

unfulfilled

distance

shutter

as

remarks

clang

impulse

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