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a convenient attack of sometimes

They want to meter sunlight in a convenient attack of sometimes where truth is less than the sum of its spin and I am less in love with language in favor of words: bone, cup, water; a simple speech of … Continue reading

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Words: Beyond and before words

by Noel Ihebuzor and Susan Daniels   before Babel maybe there was a word for this me you raise not from anything dead but sleeping & deep this me that answers & opens throating every word ever spoken in any … Continue reading

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another love poem without the word in it

before babel maybe there was a word for this me you raise not from anything dead but sleeping & deep this me that answers & opens throating every word ever spoken in any language

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daisy chain

I am linking ifs together in a chain, picking them carefully from the air when they pop up in our conversation, bright & scentless qualifiers, unplanted & unplanned, like those tiny white daisies that grow fast & low, hug close … Continue reading

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