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Thief
Katrinka Moore
BlazeVOX [books]
Buffalo, New York
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Thief by Katrinka Moore
Copyright 2009
Published by BlazeVOX [books]
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproducedwithout the publishers written permission, except for briefquotations in reviews.
Printed in the United States of America
Book design by Geoffrey Gatza
First EditionISBN: 9781935402473Library of Congress Control Number 2009925623
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Frame
A girl weaves through pedestrians on the avenue, selects
intentionlessthis street. If there were sun it would not reach here,certainly not now, late winter banked hard against the curb. Where
to get warm, to wait, to rest? She edges down steps toUsed Books &
Maps, trading grey light for brown. A bell clangs in the silent room.
Shifts from flow time to eternal present, travels by touch from shelf to
bin, book to book. Finds one, hand sewn binding, worn cover, pages
like cloth. It falls open.
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Unreliable Narrator
Shes hapless, for one thing.
Each flutter of wingsturns her head. Each terrain
takes her in. Her heart holds
the scraggly grass in a lot
on the outskirts of town. Her
minds an unruly breeze
blowing through sandstone.
~ ~ ~
The problem is the worlds
so insubstantial
so full of light & air
but we feel its a weighed-down
thing, leaning full force against us.
That childs hiding her light
under a bucket.
Ashes. This jumble of grey rock
shaded by tree-of-heaven, mossyin its darkest spots.
~ ~ ~
Its too crowded in here. Too
heavy. If you believe
what she says.
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Gravity,Levity
Egrets at hooves
in the horse pasture. One
idles on a pintos rump.
Late in the day the birds gather & fly
over creeks and towns
back to the salt marshes.
The horses roll in the mud
to fend off insects.
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What about the time they called her and she wouldnt answer,
laughing from high in the live oak, looking down at them. She could
have dropped acorns on their heads.
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Swimming in air
its not as hard
as youd think. Im so light
I keep afloat just by treading
though the brightness is hard
to adjust to. I didnt know oxygen
would be so dazzling. Maybe
its the nitrogen
that shines, or dust particles
reflecting sunlight
theres dust everywhere, moving slower
than youd believe possible
but then, Im also moving rather slowly
into the air, through
the air, toward whatever comes
after the air. Yes, Im sure
theres something at the end
though I havent found it yet
and at my current pace
it may be quite some timebefore I do. I like
this floating so much
I dont want to paddle to the edge
just to peek. I think
theres no peeking, anyway.Youre in or youre out.
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