dear McKenna
by J Michael Wahlgren

awry forlorn awry forlorn dear McKenna awry forlorn kink weepy adjectives amiss dot arrow furrow dots polka whims television okay a machine vaccine kink territories with deer trapezes forlorn onomatopoeia booms lost book lost frost adjoin hip near comic strip always telling my fortune: colorations adjoin hip? cranny nook winter storm lightning façade openly communicate

& this little museum of film
& the coat of her dress, streams

Like heavenly code,
read into. To know

my love, cinema, decadent
& light --- a flash

& comely secretariats
& read deeper

Than anchor’s depth,
camera’s depth

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