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Some Church.


Some Church

David Romtvedt

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Some Church by David Romtvedt (Poet Laureate of Wyoming) is an intimate collection themed with controversial works of of political, social, and spiritual poetry with an insightful and encouraging style that strikes an echoing chord similar to many great writers and poet before him. Science: The Country's full of flies. I hang a bag of pesticide/from a tree so that the cows can walk back and forth and rub.//There is a glacier in the mountains above town,/fall and tumble, but every year the ice recedes.//Some laugh to see slugs copulate cop·u·late
v.
To engage in coitus or sexual intercourse.
, hanging by threads from trees./Others say this is not so much funny as perverse.//The honeybee's enemies nestle in her hair. Hungry,/they tickle her mouth. She feeds them sweet nectar.//Angels, pictured as both male and female, engage in neither/photosynthesis nor heterotrophic heterotrophic /het·ero·tro·phic/ (-tro´fik) not self-sustaining; said of microorganisms requiring a reduced form of carbon for energy and synthesis.  acts, and reproduce asexually a·sex·u·al  
adj.
1. Having no evident sex or sex organs; sexless.

2. Relating to, produced by, or involving reproduction that occurs without the union of male and female gametes, as in binary fission or budding.

3.
.//There is no magnetic that at the distance of the moon/its attractive power would rearrange the molecules in our bodies.//Archaeologists believe that certain delicate phials/found in Roman ruins were meant to hold tears.
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