Tag: rutakuzmickas
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03302024 Il pleut à Paris aujourd’hui and my mind is sleepy with songs well-worn like the sock threads thinning at the palms of my feet. I will listen to rhetorical melodies for now: the strutting heels of girls in love or girls in the midst of scheming an escape, the scrape of bicycle wheels on…
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fragment 005
06252023 You look, how do you say, triste, when sunlight does not ask for permission to climb into the bathwater with me, the same expression as the someone who once told me I was lucky to draw a warm bath of my own free will. Free will, a hindrance not unlike the mousetrap in your…
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poem 004
02212023sans indentations The blindness of the sunlight on that daynever abandons me. Mirrored by the hearthreflected in your own two ember eyes. Ask me something good.Answer a question with a question.An eye for an eye,A touch for a touch. Hard heat of summer in the park that daystill simmers me from time to time. Sweatyand…
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fragment 002
02142023it’s about love if you wish it to be at the end of a dream(this isn’t a dream, it’sa row of dreams)please refrainfrom speakingor unnecessary movement (these legs of mine sea legs no longer)and tie the elbowsof your heart together(together forever)in a knot of sweetreverence, devotedto rescue the selffrom the strict templeof the mind (unlessit…
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poem 002
airplane half-poem I am not the firstto write a poemat high altitude,comfortable, numb, indelicately phasedby holy danceslicking the roofof an airplane’s mouthlike electric eel disco, magnificent rainbowsof loneliness, so farabove the water,so far from either pointof home. I am not the firstto write a poemin the scheduled dark, half-clever, widowed bymy one true nature, weak…
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poem 001
On the train in Tokyo though we are not strangersthough time was given to us once before not twice I’ll foldmy eyelids down and outdown, away from you, swayside to side, drunk-like, lefthand in place of someone else‘s journey home tonightheld on to silver, balancesilver as steel rail isthe car is full of glassthe car…
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