Kissed Man

Getting towered by the sea
Eating helplessly    Starting
to cry with ivory meaning-
fully crying putting up
with the day and night
Eating food out of cans
waiting for 2nd kiss
eating day and night
Thinking Saying doing
with flooded flower
Cabin fever through
the day and Dreaming
through the night
to die in the dark with
night   at risk   No under-
standing of speech or
heat is a kissed man

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In April, KC found this poem of Vaughn’s on a piece of notebook paper tucked into a copy of Sleeping on the Wing that was lost under her passenger seat since December.