Project 823: Urban Myths (vol. 2, part 4)

Here is the penultimate part of the epic Project 823, featuring my Friday Night friends, Ashley Martin and Cindy Keong… Oh, the myths we make!

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Something like a contraction:
you will want to stop the car
for this, like a rare botanical
work. But you are unadorned
you did as you were told
for the sake of the golden plate.
Everyone hears the heaving:
your weight in metal

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The river peeling reflections, salutes all
walking prey, braids cormorants in our hair

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Wrap the day in marigolds and white
sugar: feet throb with grief
but we will feast at midnight