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Why is it that the final poem of the book you're working on, the one that ties the
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A gull in Oban, August 2024.
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Lines That Didn't Make The Cut
Across the span, as counterpoint, a flock
of pigeons lifted into flight.
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Lines That Didn't Make The Cut
Desire feeds on what it finds, blurring
the borders of our narrative.
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We must not fear repetition in poetry,
because sweet speech is pleasant in the repetition.
—Nasir Khusraw, translated by Alice
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"It is [an] irony of oppression that the solution chosen to eliminate an enemy often guarantees that enemy'
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from “Reading Matsuo Bashō,” by Gemma Gorga (translated by Sharon Dolin):
I wonder: how many syllables must I remove
to
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From “Joyeux Noël” by Gemma Gorga (translated by Sharon Dolin):
While you try ordering yourself in the midst of the