aimless wandering
along darkened corridors
abandoned convent

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In The Dreaming Place:
Keith Carradine grins at me,
mouth full of cocaine.

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A prayer for a priest:
If only I could reach him,
my touch would heal him.

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When last I was here
I vowed never to return.
A piecrust promise.

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without a penny
a grittier Toledo
across the river

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In The Dreaming Place:
Hungarian Rhapsody
on a Celtic harp

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an old photograph
Cucumber, West Virginia
I see the lips move

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