1. "I was full of myth, which is to say full of an idea."
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Cleopatra Mathis, Book of Dog: Poems
2. "ocean's snaking blues beyond the meadow"
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Cleopatra Mathis, Book of Dog: Poems
3. "Fingernails filling with silt, scraping the sculpted..."
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Cleopatra Mathis, Book of Dog: Poems
4. "White spume flew its ghost against the glass."
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Cleopatra Mathis, Book of Dog: Poems
5. "We go out in the fog in the morning won't burn."
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Cleopatra Mathis, Book of Dog: Poems
6. "The snow is tending toward nothingness."
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Cleopatra Mathis, Book of Dog: Poems
7. "Anxiety has forged another weather."
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Cleopatra Mathis, Book of Dog: Poems
8. "I will warm the great outdoors for the whole of January if I can."
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Cleopatra Mathis, Book of Dog: Poems
9. "The heat compounded, and ugliness settled its cloud over us, profound as human speech, although by then we were not speaking."
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Cleopatra Mathis, Book of Dog: Poems
10. "And if only it would stop, shut itself up for good- this off-key 'if only' that goes on singing, like some deranged child, repeating."
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Cleopatra Mathis, Book of Dog: Poems