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Book Cover: Hope Lies in Less
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change, small and flat

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2018/01/change-small-and-flat/"></div>  We laid coins on the tracks until the adults, wearily pulled from their disregard by the seeming inevitability of our bad decisions, looked up from the campfire roused themselves […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2018/01/change-small-and-flat/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

not a magpie

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2018/01/not-a-magpie/"></div>  She gathers bits and pieces, none of them shiny, rubs her fingers against rough edges, eyes closed, trying to work out how to shape a thing from twigs and […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2018/01/not-a-magpie/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

lead

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/12/lead/"></div>  Behave as though everything you do matters even when nothing does yes else when the dog breaks free of its leash as you walk along the river you’ll stand […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/12/lead/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

strung

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/12/strung/"></div>  I fill the car’s tank with gas remembering the times you told me always be prepared to drive away Would you be disappointed how little leaving I have done […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/12/strung/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

coyotes

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/12/coyotes/"></div>  under bale moon through the night and neighborhood rolls the sound being unto itself sloshed up against fears soothings membranes and our claims of a broken world wild liquid […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/12/coyotes/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

fall past tense

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/fall-past-tense/"></div>  A stranger took an axe to the legs of an informational kiosk meant to offer welcome to wilderness felled the whole damn thing and then chopped it to bits […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/fall-past-tense/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

violetear

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/violetear/"></div>  no I’m not surprised in fact I’m exhausted by your constant need for incredulity’s validation speak to me not of men their disappointments and yours instead stand with me […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/violetear/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

I’ve taken

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/ive-taken/"></div>  I knew when I saw you I’d gotten it wrong but it was too late to hide the offering unwieldy in my arms pale green ribbon whispered undone tissue […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/ive-taken/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

she said

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/she-said/"></div>  she said … She was a woman who made conversation of the sort I disregard I let her words slip past me as I stared at her face and […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/she-said/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

and then some

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/and-then-some/"></div>  Her voice breaks. “Here’s what you don’t seem to understand: I will blame you always for this.” He shrugs. “That doesn’t even make sense. There is no blame here. […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/and-then-some/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

spin

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/spin/"></div>  every day she watches for royalty her moments ruled waiting for the tiny golden crown this is her plan to be so small in her focus so lessened in […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/spin/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

evidently

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/evidently/"></div>  she doesn’t remember anything that matters but birds folded from the ingot sky to earth enveloped held dark shimmer smothered to decompose the giddy shriek of collective winged refusal […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/evidently/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

how

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/how/"></div>  I held you all this time one-handed existence fingers entwined with yours I know this as I know my breath as I know the curled ache protective in my […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/how/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

raptor

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/raptor/"></div>  In my yard flung leavings the small crushed wrappings of awareness indigestible gentle I flatten reshape into something mitten-like into which I imagine sliding life only mine to offer […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/raptor/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

observance

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/observance/"></div>  Once a week thursdays early before the world has edges the woman colorless from sleep barefoot against the not-yet bold of fallen leaves unseen cracks the seal bends to […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/observance/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

agnate

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/agnate/"></div>  the ground on which you stand is firm it’s only memory shifts the world and memory is mine to fling loose unremembered fulcrum so do it again just like […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/agnate/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

All the little lines

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/all-the-little-lines/"></div>  She held her breath, pressed her palm to the window’s glass as the headstones raced away, and then spoke into exhalation as the scenery changed, “Don’t bury me.” Accustomed […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/11/all-the-little-lines/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

wake

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/08/wake/"></div>  it’s difficult to know anyone exists dressed in wanting but her small cold undoings these lies of yours make a river her fingers bare and loose trail in the […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/08/wake/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

wasps

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/08/wasps/"></div>  The wasps have set up housekeeping in the space of my neglect where echoes muddle meaning so rage twists on itself mere white noise now against my cheek thrum […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/08/wasps/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

and ten

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/06/and-ten/"></div>  Now that you’re gone stand still arms outstretched in the middle of absence as I sort the possessions untangle the lines words from drift hang the suns leaden lures […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/06/and-ten/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

littlest faith

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/06/littlest-faith/"></div>  after the scything the world vibrates ever with loss you lift to my shadow plead of me mistaken break my heart I offer not what you ask but otherwise […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/06/littlest-faith/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

blank before fear

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/06/blank-before-fear/"></div>  She dreamt (the worst beginning) everything turned on the story entrusted to her telling but her hands clenched vicious defense around meaning flesh bitten by unfolded details her mouth […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/06/blank-before-fear/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

be everyone

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/05/be-everyone/"></div>  a kindness this agreeing to be those who were mine forgiven forgiving on behalf of the missing and absent and gone be everyone to me smooth the sheets crackle […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/05/be-everyone/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

raze

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/05/raze/"></div>  The only hint something was wrong for those not paying attention was a ladder left aslant against a tree long after the fruit rotted from the branches and madness […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/05/raze/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

in gone

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/05/in-gone/"></div>  Did you think when I begged for assurance when I asked you over and over and over again to come looking for me if I disappeared that my departure […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.prettyalltrue.com/2017/05/in-gone/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt -->

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