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I always talk about poetry
as if
being in a room --
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This is how I have been trained - at least;
It is usually a white room:
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bright salt
dark cobalt blue, rich mineral soil
Clear
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I am usually alone in that room
But
like salt, or cobalt,
you have been here before, and
like you, others:
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We all leave traces; sweet water, monkey form, form, or not.
Some of us disappear
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into the Earth
inside a little and turquoise box, with vintage yet millennial pink flowers around the edge
into a progress bar, mint green [below]
into a cycle [or circle] of completion
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Some of us are made to disappear:
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What does it mean to disappear?
Does it look like this?
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Or like this?
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Or was it this?
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I never liked pears; they are gritty. A mouthful of syrup and sand.
di
I never liked pears; they are gritty. A mouthful of syrup and sand.
sap
I never liked pears; they are gritty. A mouthful of syrup and sand.
pear
I never liked pears; they are gritty. A mouthful of syrup and sand.
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I never liked pears; they are gritty. A mouthful of syrup and sand.
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Or this?
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"Spain l u ch truth commis ion to probe Franco-era crim s (...) The Sp nish gov r m nt s ys t it wll open n st mtd 1,200 mass graves."
" s y mor t 100,000 of F ’s fr m e vil war n its aft rmt r m n buried unmarked graves cr ss pain — f g re, t Amnesty International."
"S ain s sa d t b s c nd y t w n c s to ‘missing’ persons."
mass graves
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How do you make someone disappear?
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Where do you take them?
What do you tell them?
What do you do with their hands, their feet, their teeth?
There's hundreds of thousands of hands and feet buried under freeways, damns and playgrounds in my country
[These green teeth will never be collected]
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I sometimes think about poetry
as if
[formed or formless or form]
those hundreds
those thousands
were not traces,
were diamonds with Lucy, were true salt
were something close to baby sky hue,
and no more buried cobalt
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[Alex Saum] and you:
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