test fix verse

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title: Beneath her coat was a whole identity
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<div class="verse">
<pre class="verse">
Beneath her coat was a whole identity:
A subtle form of ideas under soft fur,
A constantly shifting mass of meaning...
@ -30,6 +30,6 @@ And slowly, she'd pick herself back up
And find a brand new way to piece herself together
And build herself a brand new smile
And brush out her coat once more.
</div>
</pre>
*First-place winner of the [Typewriter Emergencies Poetry Contest](https://www.typewriteremergencies.com/single-post/2018/02/13/Beneath-her-coat-was-a-whole-identity---1st-Place-Winner).*

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<p><em>Expect:</em><br />
Anxiety</p>
</div>
<div class="col-md-8 verse">
<pre class="col-md-8 verse">
A hundred geese overhead —
A thousand —
A million —
@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Acrid tang of ill omens.
Portents.
Too much meaning
In too small a space.
</div>
</pre>
</div>
<div class="row">
@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Too much meaning
<p><em>Expect:</em><br />
auditory aberrations</p>
</div>
<div class="col-md-8 verse">
<pre class="col-md-8 verse">
Geese are a byproduct of laminar shear stress
Of two layers of phantasmagorical
Newtonian fluids,
@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ Geese are a byproduct of laminar shear stress
A thin, sort-of Truth
From a sort of thin layer
geese chromatography.
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</pre>
</div>
<div class="row">
@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ A thin, sort-of Truth
<p><em>Expect:</em><br />
red tint to vision; hot flashes</p>
</div>
<div class="col-md-8 verse">
<pre class="col-md-8 verse">
As the dove bears the olive branch,
so to the goose bears the wand
that withers all it touches.
@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ A wand of nightshade,
A wand of obscure origin,
The goose surely stole it.
Malice begets malice.
</div>
</pre>
</div>
<div class="row">
@ -106,12 +106,12 @@ Malice begets malice.
<p><em>Expect:</em><br />
confusion; nausea; sweating; racing pulse</p>
</div>
<div class="col-md-8 verse">
<pre class="col-md-8 verse">
We know not the transgression,
the origin -
We know not the punishment,
only the terror.
</div>
</pre>
</div>
<div class="row">
@ -123,12 +123,12 @@ We know not the punishment,
pounding heart; tunnel vision; racing thoughts; black outs;
blood pouring from ears</p>
</div>
<div class="col-md-8 verse">
<pre class="col-md-8 verse">
Geas
Wing
Dark
Horizon
</div>
</pre>
</div>
<div class="row">
@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Geas
<p><em>Expect:</em><br />
tinnitus; piloerection; shortness of breath; uneven gait</p>
</div>
<div class="col-md-8 verse">
<pre class="col-md-8 verse">
Id rather owls.
Owls, as though geese were turned inside out,
made less evil.
@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ Still portentous,
Just less terrifying.
Owls are okay.
I can think about owls.
</div>
</pre>
</div>
<div class="row">
@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ I can think about owls.
<p><em>Expect:</em><br />
subdermal itching; formication</p>
</div>
<div class="col-md-8 verse">
<pre class="col-md-8 verse">
Life within a comfortable grid.
Parallel lines
Interrupting narrowing circles
@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ Trace the roof of your mouth
Im not afraid of geese anymore
Because I can step on them now.
Im big enough.
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</pre>
</div>
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@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ Im big enough.
<p><em>Expect:</em><br />
birds</p>
</div>
<div class="col-md-8 verse">
<pre class="col-md-8 verse">
Ritual thinking
Driven by geese —
By lines, by grids, by food —
@ -199,5 +199,5 @@ Failing that,
Or the ecstasy of signs
Without the bleak paranoia
Over circling birds?
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</pre>
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title: Every time I fall
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<div class="verse">
<pre class="verse">
Every time I fall,
The ground tells me I'm in love.
"'Cause love is
@ -42,4 +42,4 @@ And every time I fall,
The ground tells me I'm in love.
And every single time,
I keep coming back.
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title: Fair and Square
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<div class="verse">
<pre class="verse">
I bought my name fair and square;
Bespoke, built from whole cloth.
I wrote it again and again,
@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ Or the whisper of maple leaves
Under hurrying paws
Or the perfect overlap of new buds
Already sticky with sap.
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<div class="verse">
<pre class="verse">
Used to be you and I daily would walk
through the fields out back of the house and talk
for hours, spilling words and emotions.
@ -171,4 +171,4 @@ through the fields out back of the house and talk.
Now, it's just me, alone, quiet, thinking
of you by the shore, forever drinking
of sweet water.
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title: Heligoland
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<div class="verse">
<pre class="verse">
Too many wine-dark seas need daily traversal,
And here the shipping forecast calls for rain.
@ -25,6 +25,6 @@ is to tell you southwest gale 8 to storm 10.
I can point at the moon, exhausted, bored, decaying,
And hope you don't stare blankly at my finger.
</div>
</pre>
*Thanks to P.R.*

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title: Meaning &amp; Self
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<div class="verse">
<pre class="verse">
There's some duality between sources of meaning,
Between the types of stories we use to back identity.
It's not quite good &amp; bad or light &amp; dark,
@ -45,4 +45,4 @@ It's not a dichotomy at all, really,
now that I think about it.
It's something subtler, comfortably complex, a topic of its own.
I guess it's just meaning &amp; self.
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title: Completed poems from "Missives"
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<div class="verse">
<pre class="verse">
Though the flow'r may bloom ere long
and night recede unto the dawn,
so yet may love's embrace grow fond
@ -26,11 +26,11 @@ With so keen and fond a blade,
There's naught to fear in life or death.
So slay, then slay! For now, I care not how,
I need for naught but that which love allow.
</div>
</pre>
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<div class="verse">
<pre class="verse">
Though every climax approach a denouement
And every dawn a night,
Every moment worth sharing
@ -51,11 +51,11 @@ Pleasure may hurt, ache, burn,
May steal hours of night.
Were it with you,
Delay, then, the morn.
</div>
</pre>
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<div class="verse">
<pre class="verse">
I reach for the ewer of water,
I hope to quench the heat.
I beg for yet another serving,
@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ Though the heart may quicken --
Though the tongue may lap --
I shall sup no greater meal
Than thy gift entrancing.
</div>
</pre>
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<div class="verse">
<pre class="verse">
On reading letters late received,
I felt within: the fox --
Yelping, yowling now, crying needfully --
@ -84,11 +84,11 @@ You find me at a disadvantage --
Panting and aswish --
Would that distance be traversed as easily
As hearts t'wards yearning hearts!
</div>
</pre>
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<div class="verse">
<pre class="verse">
A rose, single, now blooming
may indeed bless the stem,
yet are not roses clipp'd and shown?
@ -110,3 +110,4 @@ Must yearn forever for that grace.
To watch that growth, to explore stem's turn,
day by day would destroy, weakening one by the hour,
A rose, single, now blooming, forever holds all pow'r.
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title: Post-op images
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<div class="verse">
<pre class="verse">
Saturday is for mechanics.
Sunday is for terror.
@ -152,4 +152,4 @@ What changed you?
<em>Everything</em>
What became of it?
<em>I became who I am</em>
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title: Somehow, she's me
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<div class="verse">
<pre class="verse">
Her hair is tied with a ribbon
Saying "This is not for you."
She wears a pendant of stamped brass
@ -55,4 +55,4 @@ She never wanted to be
What she became;
The irony of which
Is not lost on her.
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title: The Dogs Assure Me
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<div class="verse">
<pre class="verse">
The dogs assure me:
There are volumes of meaning &mdash;
Life and death &mdash;
@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ The rich scent of meaning &mdash;
Heady, intoxicating &mdash;
Rises only from words
And the way you rest your hands on the table.
</div>
</pre>
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title: There is too much fire in me
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<div class="verse">
<pre class="verse">
There is too much fire in me to be described by the soldering iron's tip.
If I were to draw that across my flesh,
@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ Particle would excite particle
  until I'm felt only as warmth on your face.
But even that would not be enough.
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title: When I fall, I will remain whole
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<div class="verse">
<pre class="verse">
I keep hoping that, one day,
I'll spring palladial from the bole of a tree.
Fully formed, sexless,
@ -32,4 +32,4 @@ My vision will be clear and unclouded,
My will affirming, strong, and sure.
And when I fall, I will remain whole,
Confident that I lived well and unapologetic.
</div>
</pre>