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| thetic | |||
| earth halves for licit and unsanctity | |||
| as a crystal's red-gold locks | |||
| draw paren to the sun brand | |||
| as to sun I tell this guy | |||
| is water in water, bottleneck's the dynast's | |||
| hand, by bore flayed boxwood | |||
| lip to lave by lawmen's banded eyes | |||
| bunches in the hand the same as me | |||
| poised upon the polished fats a wedge | |||
| erst grace and sublimate, befell a gauze bon mot | |||
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 Michael Cross reading from Snow Sensitive Skin, by Taylor Brady & Rob Halpern (Atticus/Finch, 2007). Austin, TX,12/01/07, at Okay Mountain. 
 
 Michael Cross reading from his chapbook, Cede (Vigilance Society). 12/01/07, at Okay Mountain. | |||
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