Survival occupies us with our blank shopping carts
next to blank shelves. We grow desperate because spaces
are blank. A hurricane that leaves a bitter taste
as stores carry bare wrappers and blank sympathy.

To brace for the blank light that is lined with
a blank canvas of green. The thought of paying for
a generator is a surplus of blank pockets. Our unfinished
wishes roll from our lips like blank blessings that wait for air.

We already know the pointblank news. It is hurricane season.
A map to bare knuckle Puerto Rico. How grief piles on top
of itself. It is not enough to have a blank promise, so we cut away
the U.S. blanket of support that is transparent like blank paper.

During such times as this, we pull apart the blank spaces
until those blank stars fill and return to our ocean.

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blank shopping carts
next to blank shelves
spaces are blank
bare wrappers and blank sympathy

brace for the blank light
a blank canvas of green
blank pockets
blank blessings that wait for air

pointblank news
bare knuckle Puerto Rico
blank promise
U.S. blanket of support transparent like blank paper

pull apart blank spaces
until blank stars fill and return our ocean

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blank shopping carts
shelves
spaces
wrappers    sympathy
light
canvas of green
pockets
blessings
news
Puerto Rico
promise
paper
spaces
until blank stars fill ocean

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blank shopping carts       shelves

blank spaces          sympathy         light

blank canvas of green

blank pockets         blessings         paper

promise until blank stars fill

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blank spaces of green

blank pockets          paper promise

until blank stars fill