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Like a Butterfly by Jennifer Compton

Iambic pentameter by Patricia Sykes

I watch myself how I use my voice how much I give away rebellion weighs against obedience prayer against fantasy rote against the thrill of words that lately arrive It was hearing a girl recite Ode to a Cabbage that made me want to write verse myself I hide my poems like hoarded love the taste of secrecy is delicious (Nun- the-Big-Irish gives the girl curry when she catches her

Grass by Jill Jones

Empty girl I was, so far inside, grass didn't know me It was something unbending, only light seemed to touch But so long as I could smell the sea, so long as salt I had extrications, music, that fire, phase & beat And all around the world went off, banners & avenues, cruelties Now it's come one, come all, a kind of sassy hoedown The grass is going, it cracks & withers sadly, almost infinitely But

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