One Instance Of Fleeing
by Mohamad Said Bazzi
(December 29, 2022)
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┆ distance is crucial for
CLARITY
┆ to hold
┆
┆ i was in the midst of a
SUFFOCATION
┆ yet did not know
┆
┆ living under the
BEAUTIFUL
┆ growth
┆
┆ the endless night road
┆
┆ the extent of its
EXPANSE
┆ could never be foretold
┆
┆ the realization of the
SINGULARITY
┆ of man
┆
(what is sadness, if not seeing the depths in all things?)
┆
┆ the dry
STILL
┆ winter trees
┆
┆ one brother surrenders
┆
┆ and the other
STILL
┆ waits for daybreak
┆
┆ the leaves are
STILL
┆ full of grace and unmodified
┆
┆ cartesian waste
LINES
┆ the perimeter
┆
┆ the true sky
HIDES
┆ from the proposals of men
┆
┆
it will be days or years
before the dilapidation
is perceptible
and eventually overwhelms
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