Girls at Midnight

A girl is running up a sanddune,


down the other side



into a lake



There are? clouds over the moon,


a cloudy night (for it is night)


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A girl had lost her house

in Minnesota

when a tornado levelled a town





There was nothing to sew in the thriftshop

turned on its corner like a washing machine

went for a ride




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                                      and the sand under the girl's feet as she runs








                                      California is a lovely name

                                      she thought, thinking of quietly

                                      shined up moon