Carl Adamshick Poems

I DIDN'T WANT to give my body to war.
I saw news footage of a fly

in a dead man's mouth. I saw a man
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Away from leaf touch, from twig.
Away from the markings and evidence
of others. Beyond the shale night
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The unusual voice encountered in Curses and Wishes carries a quiet, slightly elevatedconversational tone, which flows from intimate secrets to wider social concerns.
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IF YOU HAD any sense
you would be making love.
Your hands would be sloppy with it.
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IT HAS become clear
the woman in the warehouse
is being beaten.
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WE WANTED to save
the dead animals.

We took a skinned
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