Words — Darla Mottram

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Certificate of Irrevocability

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Belief System

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Recurring Nightmare

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The Poem Fails

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I Was Watching the Osprey

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Woman with a Head of Arrows

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Let It Matter

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Twigs

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Two Doves

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And Blacksilk Hair

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In Loco Parentis

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An Extraterrestrial Sleeps in My Closet

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Hellbent

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Closer

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Inventory

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Apple Falls From Tree

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End of the Line

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In South Dakota I Spent Hours Touring the Third Longest Cave in the World

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After Dinner

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Lungfish

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Will There Be More

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Contemporary Patterns in a Historical Context

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Nine O' Clock

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Is That Mushroom or Ash

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A Pattern Must Be Established for Variation to Occur

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Crow

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Aperture, Mother of Impulse

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Cheating Ourselves

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Dress Code

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Chameleon

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Coming of Age

Why Arms If Not for Reaching

Indiana

Everyone Has a Relationship to Stars—

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Dragon

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Barnacle

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Circumference

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Honeybee

A Real Family

When Is a Window Not a Mirror?

Coyote

The Grumbling God

Vespers

It's OK to Be a Waterfall

Questions Regarding the Moon

Gotcha

Letting in the Wolves

Ouroboros

What Happened