Jared Smith

The word that had many voices -- Storm King Mountain -- Father -- The alchemist's stone -- If beggar boys were shamans -- A mountain in a suitcase -- Symmetries -- A matter of degrees -- Twenty years of empty spaces -- Unforgiving -- At christmas just before midnight -- In age -- Snowball, Gregory Corso and a village stoop -- Translucence -- Dead people -- Being born of bone -- Fossil -- Full moon above main street -- Ka-Ching! -- STROKE! -- Leaves and spit -- Ramses visits the cradle of democracy -- Masks and carved animals -- Wallpaper memories -- Rivers in the ocean -- An arborist's taxonomy -- The intensity of light -- The hand-off -- Proud ilium -- Nationbuilding -- The gates are set to close -- Little cowboys geniuses -- Fine bone China -- Tthe little things -- Not time -- With no return addresses -- Helios -- What light? -- Nanotechnology man -- V Roadhouse restaurant & girll -- Where colors end -- Asking forgiveness -- Obesrving the constellations in grand central -- Along the back roads from Illinois to Pennsylvania -- After sundown at Rye Beach -- Where the farthest galaxies roar into nothingness -- Best not to know a town too well -- In the beginning.

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