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Flash Flood
Flash Flood is a poem of witness—set in the Tennessee hills during a sudden flood—and traces the unraveling of lineage, memory, and land. The poem honors the quiet promise to stay, even when everything is being undone.
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Sonder
I watch my shadow disentangle from the light to plead for its life with the oak’s penumbra and the rising sun, the stride of leashed dogs, bicycle wheels and othersilhouettes, evaporating in the park’s heat. In the artificial lake beyond, a one-man sculls theunobscured water, its paddles leaving clear streams behind.Five strokes later the craft…