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Leonardo Alishan


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the white

rectangular spaces

on the walls

remind me even more of my losses

than the pictures I've removed

 

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a night-bird calls me

by a name only my grandmother knew

and the woman who comes

and lies beside me

when I'm deep in sleep

 

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I smile and say

I thought

a poem a day keeps the doctors away

my smile drowns

in the quiet sorrow of his caring eyes

 

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hard work

this business of words

every day they demand

more specificity

soon I'll be too scared to touch them

 

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night snow

as silent

as the phone

 

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peeling an onion

layer by layer

like a ball of dreams

till nothing is left

but tears

 

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a dead duck on the road

 

I know I won't

ever see my home again

 

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after gathering so many feathers

could this one

be an angel's

 

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you were

my full-lenght mirror

the closer I come to you

the loss

I saw of myself

 

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''Through a Dewdrop''

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