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AMAZE
Pat Tompkins

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Summer Day

between
two sycamores
an empty hammock sags—
the weight of memory held now
and then


Long Live the Basilisk

frozen,
a lizard heats
itself on sand, regal
mien undone by a twitching throat:
a pulse
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