Night Index
published in Blood Tree Literature, Issue 15: Legacy Print
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in sleep I spoke two languages
unhindered by habit or alphabet

and traced a line of uneasy kin
through snow-bent grasses
unfinished sentences
mismatched shoes
and other shores

to an afternoon lost
between small towns
a wool coat buttoned with a roofing nail
pockets stuffed with onion skins