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Chad Scheel

Richard Scarry Skate Park



Two lows from scratch make
whatever split we

find found.  Light

is thick with moth.
Shouts this loud

no longer secret.
There is a way

to get silence
back.  First fists,

then flight,
then fists again.


     
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