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poetry is photographypoetry is photography: / the photography of your soul / it begins as an observation captured in stuttering syntax:
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the merlion spiritqueer creature of white stone: / the spirit of the island in the head of this lion, / the soul of the natives in the body of this fish,
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conformityas on a musical score, / our parts are dictated, / spelt out in dynamics,
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wah-eetoo often you prod me with your / monosyllabic question: your lips / form it, so gradually, and hence,
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knot**knot** / **upon** / **knot** of ironies
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unpacking giftsHe shakes the box she / gifts him, like a child, / or a fortune-teller, thinking
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EmbersIn place of memories — embers. / Inextinguishable, yet untrue / to the fidelity of what was.
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but science cannot explain the bicycleRemoved for literary journal submission.
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cereal and milkIf reality is a bowl of / smashed cereal, / irreconcilable with
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love's officelove's office / is the heart; / its administration,
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