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I can't seem to let go
  of all the memories
I can't seem to let go
  of all the laughs
I can't seem to let go
  of all the jokes
I can't seem to let go
  of all the lies
I can't seem to let go
  of You
  May 2014 Aylin Soto-Aleman
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ask your blood
your limbs, your breathing feet
what Poetry is -
a phylogenetic anomaly
in light’s discontinuity

or just…
the strange yearning of hematopoiesis

ask the silence in your lungs
the bursting DNA, reinterpreted
how it allures memory inside your bones
how it treads conventions of sleep
with the weight of a sigh

if you ask me
what Poetry is
I’d say: breath calligraphy
a winged dream of depth
on enchanted retina
the bitter-sweet art of airy harmony

ask your hands
what Poetry is
perhaps they’ll take a moment
to bloom
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