3 Poems
by Sam White

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sirens sirens and sunlight ferments

the dream were the dream a still



The crass lecturing spires

on how to hold it down

hold it down     grief like getting out of bed

sweetness in the ignition of the cloudless van

I stood up mid-shit

and the sky above its too few hours

love, a containment, so went in traffic








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This in the mind of the painter who became a banker

who became a teller who became the told,





Deliver me from parity and all its hallucinations.


I hop from one lily pad to the next



and each a tanned and caffeinated skin.


I do do not do all the way down



the bioluminescent pebbled path.


A man within a mighty bird



- a duck, afloat like a cookbook -


teaches it to eat.








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So goes the measure of all things

in barcodes, picas, and held against your breast

emits its silence as a book,




and held against the heat,

its ambition to be bellows over embers

seen to all the final glowing coals




beneath the blackened chicken



two reddish orange primate eyes flare up

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