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Richard Lopez – Butterfly Knife


Richard Lopez

Butterfly Knife


Click and glint of steel
the blade bent

cold and might

a moment
be measured but by its absence

balanced in the hand

it
would make

this

our arrival

behind the supermarket
rusted-out cars and tossed bottles of beer

return to SHAMPOO 15


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