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Andrew Farmer
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Poet, Writer, Recording Artist, Violinist, Long Term Care/Supports Investigator/Advocate, Pro-Democracy Patriot, Remedial Ally of Women/People of Color/LGBTQI+/People With Disabilities/Animals and This Planet. Public Policy Curious. Horseplay Adjacent.
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Esky
Flaming fajitas in Escanaba should say it all, the night of a day’s worth of driving out of Lansing.
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January 21, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Nomad
Boxes, packing paper, bubble wrap, things you understand now.
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January 16, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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Firmament
What we were to think.
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January 11, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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January 8, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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Lexicality
Words, as cookie cutters shape the meanings.
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January 5, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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Lacuna
All this has been very pleasant, now our crumpled prayers overflow the wastebaskets, the Lord all debriefed we say of all the taskets He (being Him) will stomach no listening to anyway.
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January 3, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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Excavation
These brinkman tailings ghosted what made this honesty furtive.
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December 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Perihelia
When he leaves it will be winter,
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December 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Deluge
If it’s a rain, like any other, can you rest, assured it’s weathered every measure, before a drop has reached the ground Or rescinded, evaporated of its quest.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Apparatus
It come off like the mangled from stretchers.
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December 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Courtship
To zero in on what she fears, prudence counsels, or disappears, says set aside the bases, all of them, any out in them thar hills, as well as what’s tight-in or in confession spills, closer than what ...
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December 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Deposition
Some few who were close enough,
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December 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Astrum
Recalling how her uplift’ gaze commanded the very stars to undress within night’s tent; their veils, then, dropped before morning’s knees, as if to prove the heavens are harem to her sighing whorl, or...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Advisory
Passing as any winter and its hindered sky, dependent upon some degree of knowledgeability, the meteorology, very few degrees at that, very precise in ranges of temperature, moisture, wind and dust, g...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Solace
How we mostly just want that breeze washing through our windows, all of them, wind chime shadows massaging books sprawled on a red ottoman, like so many piled up thoughts, still asking for the thinkin...
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November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Integrity
Tried to stay same as the difference drawn from subtractions of minus degree weather, signs being everywhere like recycled leather that the signs are being taken down so as to subsume prevailing taste...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Forecast
That bounce of sun igniting rafters, the kingdom come, storm fringed from furrowed frowns flashing laughter, the say-so’s reddened tongue’s taste for disaster rattling in each window’s inveigled invit...
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November 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Shoreline
Each modest wave falls to its knees at the chancel’s sand, reveals what you may still know, or may yet still unlearn, about what will remain oral on a handwritten land.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Prelude
Balsa glider sorties attacking driveway gravel, threats, ransacking some Mom’s back porch, unravel, you know who must control the skies.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Evermore
Streets like pews in a darkened cathedral empty-headed but for fog and mouths unfed a cricket-nation’s violins vibrato the dead arrested on organ keys for keeps in free fall. What had been received as...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Mirror
Impossible to remember the reversal of whoever was looking was looking back, the rehearsal looking back not existing, the existing one, lost track, still listing.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Meanings
When you no longer find, wishing ordering for all the meanings, giving glossary to all the ways their guidance’ cant intones, you know what you know, already, about how their distances, their many, no...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Uncharted
We understand each passage’s gate, to beach our message's ending, in so many such ships, shifting, our freight.
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October 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Extempore
A discovery, after the fact, sometimes years later, that it was always a particular chair, one of those small leather club chairs, brown as a long-abandoned drop forge, with the tufting buttons punctu...
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October 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Summergone
Steaming roads faded, the darkness belated growing long, celebrating it’s singer off the stage but humming still her hit song, is how we believe in anything, hoping never once to have fought its cling...
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October 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM