The charms of my apartment
are negative. Doors deleted.
Absence of rubble.
Absence of trouble.
Wax books (hollow).
Shinto gate to nowhere.
Empty. Mysterious. Bare.
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Rachel McAlpine
independence
Some can only sing in a choir
Some can only sing in a choir.
Some can only sing solo.
Some know when to join the crowd
and when they need to follow.
Some have a Yea-Lord back-up choir
they cannot see or swallow.
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Rachel McAlpine
Poems in the wild—Rachel McAlpine 