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 Sep 2019 juliana
Emmie van Duren
At what stage does a poem become a short story? How many words can I squander or squash to fit a category?  
I think I know how to tell the difference between prose and doggerel but the rhythms change as pictures in my mind morph into another kind and thumb their nose at boundaries and realign themselves to squeeze just one more nuance in the theme - a poet's heavenly hell.

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Below the moon
A thousand hands
Were tied
To you
We drew straws
And I fought
The urge to
Drown with you
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