Sabine Miller
Dhanyabad
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Inside the Prayer Wheel
               for Kathmandu
crickets’ knees to crickets’ ears
.
hanging from branches at night
pendulums intentions
.
all rivers
   made of
      that one
music
.
lean into it, she says,
having breathed each airless room
.
rivers carved
bodies round
.
to the circle of men singing rounds to
Buddha at the Monkey Temple now dust
.
centripetal and centrifugal,
depending on the recipient
Card from Russian Hill
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Polk Street, San Francisco
golden gates
imperfect body
.
carry a broken
life, a briefcase, organic
figs
.
the sea
came to
the bay
tamed the
the waves
.
prose for the less inhabiting thoughts;
maybe why I must live in the suburbs.
.
a stray cricket
off-tempo
with gusto
.
the homeless man in the stair-
well's one mirror
.
in the fruit vendor’s fingernails
the undergrowth that sang Oppen
Spring: Ashes
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Sabine Miller lives near San Francisco. Her new chapbook, Branch to Finch, is available from Ornithopter Press.
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Dhanyabad
Inside the Prayer Wheel
               for Kathmandu
crickets’ knees to crickets’ ears
.
hanging from branches at night
pendulums intentions
.
all rivers
   made of
      that one
music
.
lean into it, she says,
having breathed each airless room
.
rivers carved
bodies round
.
to the circle of men singing rounds to
Buddha at the Monkey Temple now dust
.
centripetal and centrifugal,
depending on the recipient
Card from Russian Hill
Polk Street, San Francisco
golden gates
imperfect body
.
carry a broken
life, a briefcase, organic
figs
.
the sea
came to
the bay
tamed the
the waves
.
prose for the less inhabiting thoughts;
maybe why I must live in the suburbs.
.
a stray cricket
off-tempo
with gusto
.
the homeless man in the stair-
well's one mirror
.
in the fruit vendor’s fingernails
the undergrowth that sang Oppen
Spring: Ashes
Sabine Miller lives near San Francisco. Her new chapbook, Branch to Finch, is available from Ornithopter Press.