dodoitsu set

crunchy leaves 

littering the courtyard

at the local store 

buying brown sugar

-

next door neighbor

plays piano...

i wonder what winter

will bring this year

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family dinner 

amid the conversation 

the walnut wainscoting 

distracts me 

-

for breakfast 

eating leftover steak...

skipped reading Tolstoy 

seven times 

-

incoming storm...

an awkward kid 

behind his eyes wrestling 

with insecurities

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smell of figs 

and burned sugar cane --

claiming what its like 

to be Afro-Creole 

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lots of cosmos

before the rental house 

up and down the street 

afternoon sunspill