Mirrorform
Written into absence
certain words explode,
strewing their starry payload
in morphemed radiance
each time they join. What chance
have we to spark like that
before our verse is set,
written into absence?
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Mirrorform
Desires ungratified
Persist from one life to the next.
––James Merrill, The Kimono
Desires ungratified
break down into the flesh,
tangling in the mesh
of plaited nucleotides.
Some spike the lymph, or blood.
Others, more benign,
put kinks in the family line
who can’t be gratified.
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