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Peter Schwartz the process of
nothing
1. flower box
a yearling,
that one-sun rose
dressed finalized
in greeting
2. the
magic box
spaceship, tulip
fool the foot remains
the miracle would be
to bleed silver
3. accordion
one learns love like an
old accordion
between the gasps and wheezed
of flattened gratitude
the oom-pah, the industrial
an eon
this mistranslation
I love so
4. the
carpet box
two feet in
on the worst side of remaining
this olympics of the often
repeats
5. the
puppet box
there is no handle
on this puppet box
the crank on the side
releases a small voice
the faces painted
on each panel
hardly distract me
I am turning
learning the names for everything
in an old puppetmaster’s world
6. candle
box
“pretend
lights” you called them
as if each held such passion
from a black box,
a simple black box.
7. coffin
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