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A Few Thoughts on Zayn Malik
“On the long last day of his life, the Buddha sat perfectly still.”
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Genetic Drift
In Arkansas, five thousand blackbirds fall on New Year’s Eve, pepper kernels crunching up pavement. The street-sweeper parks and stares. Does not know who to call. The corpses are cleared but they keep missing spots, like when mother paid me to pluck out her grays—celestial casualties left for the neighbor boy to shovel away. I…
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Love Is
Love is an expression simple to understand but tough to maintain. It’s like a symphony of instruments created individually but only complete together. The catch being that the notes are obscure. The sheet music is unscripted and all that’s left is You. Its blind conductor who was given no directions. You see, love comes without…
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After a Certain Number of Leagues
“You’ve said I remind you of those deep water high stress fish: cakey eyes, headlights that make sense in pitch nothing but when taken to surface explode.”
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Chiral
Perhaps strange, perhaps vague… How things can break and almost mend themselves, A little strange. How we succeed ourselves. Pioneers barely dominate infinitely As Parthenon becomes a Laurel and laurels become…. Become. Franchise, monetize….value nothing is immutable. On the verge of concluding a pointlessness- Staring at the face of mutability At the fading morning glory…
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Love According to Gabriel García Márquez
“Love is a breath, and a surprise, and the common space between two solitudes, and two bodies.”
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Gingko Leaves
“All / Cicero said we need is a library and a garden, so I’ll keep / little brown pots on the windowsills.”
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The Immigrant Daughter Speaks
I’m not going to force your name–– Mother → Mommy → Eomoni → 어머니 → Eomma → 엄마–– because I never called you that. I never called you anything. For all your shifts you were the same, twisting every verb into –ing (I am telling you, I am not saying) when it already happened.…