KAVEH AKBAR Before You Left on Your Journey Which Has Kept You Away for So Long
any part of me you remove / will grow back
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any part of me you remove / will grow back
a game, something someone / played, once.
“A child runs into the ocean / and I cover my ears.”
“Bolt scattered to its seven pieces”
“I arrive again at this place, but am no longer / of that time”
…more than a pool / of smudges and parts.
“That knot. / Our fear, / So dear, / Is its undoing.”
“How did we lose our charm?”
“The onion detects / certainty in dirt”
“The mind turns / on an ocean”