There Is A Door

Morning, noon & night
Three sides of the same coin
              The light in the dark
              The dark in the light
              plus one more…
YOU’RE IN THE WAY
turn the page         Look Out!         the moon & you
                                                                  are both lopsided
(a shadow carved in marble,
granite, steel, ink
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surfboard sleeps in corner of room
the light & the dark of it
gas heater performs a little Erik Satie
at 3 in the morning

who I am at 3 in the morning
is made out of glass

Inverted abalone shell iridescence
on the surface of the water four hours later

the sand is just as cold, just as deep
in the shallows, just as restless
endlessly rocking
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drizzle.           splash.           trickle.           blink.
(   This is an
              H   o   m   a   g   e   )
kelp blossom.
Beer can

                              There’s a door that’s halfway open
yesterday it was halfway shut

              in six different languages

all fucked up               D   E   S   I   R   E
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It’s dark in here & either dark or light out there
              darker underwater & customized
gray pavement, crushed velvet
                              except for the ritual
string of pearls