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JC Talamantez<\/h2>\n

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maybe some men just<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 amass an immovable nature<\/p>\n

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your father would\u2019ve turned sixty today<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2014a few times at his mother\u2019s \/ you could be alone with him<\/p>\n

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he returning\u2014military\u2014<\/p>\n

from some place you didn\u2019t understand<\/p>\n

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put headphones so you wouldn\u2019t watch Halloween<\/em>\u2014he loved horror movies<\/p>\n

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and dark legs land-bound on the precise blanket<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0below a window riot<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of apricot, on hill country summer<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 paint each leaf<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

but an absent father\u2019s jovial Spanish, is still just a man<\/p>\n

you don\u2019t know<\/p>\n

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and he was in the sky missing feathers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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