Hans Ostrom Poems

Crime disrespects. It exploits
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According to my notes, an essay
should have a niece’s statement,
which is different from a tropical
sentence. An essay should have a
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Gävle surprised me. It marched
out of my expectations looking like Garbo—
brusque, beautiful, never weak. Baltic air
struck like hammer blows. At the
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If a tree fell in the forest,
and you were in the way,
you might be killed. If you
fell in the forest, and
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After a lot of snow fell
and stayed, noise flew south
to join a conga line. Listening
from inside the house to nothing
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The shrub, Daphne, volunteers to grow
After birds, for example, defecate its purple berries
Onto soil. Daphne refuses to be transplanted.
Moved, it dies. The original Daphne became a tree
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On that particular day, USA was invading
a country again. I didn’t know anything
to think that would change USA. Maybe
I was wrong to observe birds. When
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I am my home,
my real estate.
Memory contests the deed
and title, would
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At Frustration Station, crates
of bad karma get off-loaded,
vats of bile sit in storage, and
tickets turn to paste. Conductors
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I ponder you. You ponder me.
Thus we create a palpable
ponderability,
a kind of interstasis
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