Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Raymond Antrobus


from Echo


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What?

a word that keeps looking

in mirrors like it is in love

with its own volume.

What?

I am a one-word question,

a one-man

patience test.

What?

What language

would we speak

without ears?

What?

Is paradise

a world where

I hear everything?

What?

How will my brain

know what to hold

if it has too many arms?


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