Evie Shockley

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  • 1.
    we make midnight a maquette of the year:
    frostlight glinting off snow to solemnize
    the vows we offer to ourselves in near
    silence: the competition shimmerwise
    ...
  • 2.
    when your mother can rise from her place
    on the pew during the early service,

    early enough that the sun barely fills the sky
    ...
  • 3.
    when i was younger, trees
    were green, money was green, money
    grew on trees, or trees grew up
    and became money. now, money is clearly
    ...
  • 4.
    celebrations: what a star
    announcedâ??a birthâ??and then a chance to fold
    a year away, pull one fresh from the drawer,

    ...
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Ballade Of The Midnight Forest
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Still sing the mocking fairies, as of old,
Beneath the shade of thorn and holly-tree;
The west wind breathes upon them, pure and cold,
And wolves still dread Diana roaming free
In secret woodland with her company.
'Tis thought the peasants' hovels know her rite
When now the wolds are bathed in silver light,
And first the moonrise breaks the dusky grey,
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