1. The Color Blends
Civil War buildings
Clownishly cobbled
Postbellum fried burger swags
Racing through Jersey
2. 2 Ads
Wet limp quintessence
Fleeting & pleading
Our mood assumes nailacquer
Radioactive
Boiled impression
Down to one letter
Faces reclaimed from past hope
Hungry eyes, mute mouth
3. Newark, From Afar
From a car it shines
Miniature Taj
An Oz, Uz, or Agrabar
Throughly lying
4. Default Utility
Abandoned topsoil
Older than I am
Heaped in a careful peaked loaf
Verdant and flowering
5. Grape Graphics
All along railroads
Brightening stonework
Aerosol Books of Kells stream
Lettered by one son
6. Intaglio
White on white logo
No relief till it's
Heliodependent, from
Three o'clock on
7. Aluminum Bowls
Repose is labor
Suddenly chaos:
End of creation like this
Shitting, on Amtrak
8. Home
Christ at Emmaus
Never had sofas
Living where bridges meet soil
Dry, on a La-Z-Boy
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