Wo Chan — the smiley barista remembers my name
Poetry Unbound
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Withstanding the Sun Is a Conversation
The poem is about withstanding the sun and somehow feeling held together by something like an emotion. It resolves to say this is not a feeling and saying instead it's a conversation so rather than just being at the mercy of the sun, Wauchan knows that they're in conversation back with the sun. I can turn to the thing that might have on the one hand given heat and on the other hand burnt and I can say something back.
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