Poem in Which I Disappear in My Own Life

I pull a thistle from the dirt

in the middle of Texas,

I peer over the edge of Lover’s Leap

and count beer cans and condoms,

I leave my footprint in a creek bed.

In the middle of Texas,

my uncle sits me down on his couch

and says, “I need to tell you my dream

about the son I never knew.…

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