Parallax of Diaphanous and Salt

. . . in Midwestern cul-de-sacs
I understood lingering, the right-hand self
devoted to architecture the left-hand self not
devoted to anything at all

Of Progress and Implied Mission

Poet’s Sampler: Karla Kelsey

Introduced by Bin Ramke

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