Victoria Adukwei Bulley & André Naffis-Sahely: Quiet/High Desert
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A Poem, Ten Years On, Is Still a Pining Asking
This poem is the one you sat down to write. Locked into the hold of it, or running shaded through the leaves of this book,. Is the poem that escaped, untouched by hands that know no tenderness. And here he is, my sad boy. Now watch this older girl stop and throw her day out with the dust and turn blue. To this whole impermanent thing is deceptive. Looks lifelong, actually, to me. Still stuck here moulding mason jars of words to preserve him with., wondering if a poem, ten years on, is still a pining asking, how many more i'll make. Having learned at last how little of us keeps not quiet, as
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