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MARROWING









          If she     is
          a standing error
          a formal invitation
          a breath

          motion stop eye:
          keep within 2 minutes

          distance struck
          my name   weighed less than
          2 minutes

          spun  up
          up spun

          weighted less than
          To Whom it May Concern

          keep moving 
          anticipate
          and shift






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          Vessel ladder notation

          the river shifts
          image raise and   arm

          joy sounded
          in whole joy

          a notation is
          vessel distracted






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          Sound spun stepped up
          and then and then and
          the line moved through
          and repeat

          her efforts  making
          a sentence timed to arrive
          exactly at the end

          but bluer  and  reassembled
          a  self  resemblance






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          broken how
          and I can't 

          grey blinked
          and mixed into

          then less than against
          her crossing ladder  alone

          the sentence swimming
          until the concrete cracked

          joy contained wilder
          a self-eyed wave

          reading as reading
          greater than

          spinning or standing
          less than cell
          spun framed and found






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          breath and effort
          my face turned blue

          the opposite of chaos
          the action itself

          rigor or comfort or
          my joy ascending
          greater than

          how he comes
          apart explained and

          I'm not breathing

          time puncture
          whole joy amok






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          pushed into
          the here

          formation 
          still the bounding
          in

          every side voracious
          and  blinking

          spun tenuous

          walking image
          cell frame found






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          less than

          H for ash
          an arm turn

          H for ladder
          bloom  amok

          not rigor or
          H for self-eyed

          comfort or

          greater than






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          breathing against
          knowing

          eye self you're
          selfish self eyed
          mirror placed

          colliding
          coiled

          joy notation
          river  turn

          second rip
          and   ascend

          echo atop
          vessel night






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          If she is standing:
          A formal invitation

          If she imitates standing
          she is

          spinning or standing
          as reading as reading as
          standing or spun frame

          marrow without in
          an understanding

          conditions without a circle
          or without a wire imitation
          of a imitation and  a circle

          is she reading as if
          standing as if reading
          as if breathing

          as if she is framed as if






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          2 minutes distance
          clinging

          broken rungs
          still the ladder

          How  words
          fall apart

          stepping down
          less than up






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          The weight of motion
          the line through

          how her eye watches
          upwards and tumbled

          over the hand and
          effort held my face

          on every side
          voracious and knowing


          the flying dream
          moving still and through






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          Melody how
          shadows memory

          close music
          a repeat

          memory how
          melody shadow

          marrow repeat
          marrowing close






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          Walking as walking
          atop must night

          stepping she
          begins where I

          fell bounding
          resembled

          a dream
          punctured

          voracious
          and image

          how the late

          outward or
          still ladder shaking

          risk other
          mirror utter

          amok self






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Maryrose Larkin lives in Portland, Oregon, where she works as a freelance researcher. She is the author of Inverse (nine muses books, 2006), Whimsy Daybook 2007 (FLASH+CARD, 2006), The Book of Ocean (i.e. press, 2007) and DARC (FLASH+CARD, 2009. Larkin is one of the organizsers of Spare Room, a Portland-based writing collective, and is co-editor, with Sarah Mangold, of FLASH+CARD, a chapbook and ephemera poetry press. Her new book, The Name of This Intersection is Frost, is forthcoming from Shearsman Books.