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Chad Scheel

Appetite
As if resistance
were enough
jangling (minor)
keys
Learning to whistle
then fighting the urge to

That I do not

Pigeons
forced
to find
the difference
between
roofs and rock
ledges

Alchemical
A 60-watt light
from down the hall

No one would want
to be us right now

We are, so it’s difficult

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A rose, tinted
or not

is perceptible

I pinch
like a bulb twisted

On finally learning to whistle

a fence must
come down

plentiful

rosebush must
decay

LOOPED
beyond
bounce
and attack
hammers snuff
out
stammered
tones
smeared
touch . your
bare
neck

WE
are members

of one

another . Piercingly
on the surface

a crab
apple bounces

liquid . buoyant . and it

is not
thinking

of you
at all