Alison Hawthorne Deming Poems

The queen grows fat beneath my house
while drones infest the walls
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Then it was the future, though what's arrived
isn't what we had in mind, all chrome and
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Pomegranates fell from the trees
in our sleep. If we stayed
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One of the spectators is disappointed
there isn't a guide to explain
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Some did not want to alter the design
when the failure message
said massive problem with oxygen.
Some wanted to live full tilt with risk.
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