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Zywa Jun 11
Characters, even

lifelike, are only alive --


within the story.
End of the novel "Quichotte" (2019, Salman Rushdie), part 3, chapter 21

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Jun 10
Farewell, time to go.

Walking to their home, she cries --


and keeps looking back.
Epic "Ilias" ("Troy",  750 BC, Homerus), book 6, line 494-496 - Andromache and Hector

Collection "Moist glow"
Zywa Jun 10
He gave me a book

with an x in it, well, can --


an x be trusted?
Poetic fictional essay "The beauty of the husband" (2001, Anne Carson), Tango V

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s"
Zywa Jun 9
The monk is thinking

about the numerous forms --


of lack of knowledge.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 1: Birth, chapter 1

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Jun 9
The grey langurs screech

in the main city temple --


and bang the clappers.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 1: Birth, chapter 2

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Jun 8
I get up, the day

blows towards me, letting me --


converge with myself.
Poem "Samen" ("Converging" [with ourselves], 2023, Astrid Arns)

Collection "SoulSenseSun"
Zywa Jun 8
The gigantic wheels

of light emerge from the sea --


like super spaceships.
Column "For Your Information" by ***** Ley in Galaxy magazine, published in August 1962, included in the collection "***** Ley's For Your Information: On Earth and in the Sky" (1967), about the 'Wheels of Poseidon', plankton-patterns of acoustic pressure waves in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf

Story "A Meeting with Medusa" - ยง 5. The Wheels of Poseidon (1971, Arthur C. Clarke)

Collection "Held/True"
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