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Geyer, Bernadette
And so I look back
still thinking of her
with painful heart,
this clench of inner flesh.
—Kakinomoto Hitomaro
from Manyoshu
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Praise the irritant, that genesis,
implanted within the soft
and malleable animal that bore you.
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Your brethren strung around my neck,
dangling from my earlobes.
The imperfections the jeweler slights, I praise.
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Artifact of a biological process,
why do we expect
symmetry from a grain of sand?
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Praise the oblong beauty
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Geyer, Bernadette
Train. Distant Train. Praise the glorious distance of Train.
Dogs bark, reply to the mournful echo of Train's whistle. Train looks back, keeps moving. Train carries its boxcars of secrets further and further away (and even further still) from those who profess to love Train, but who do not run after him. Eyes brimmed with glassy reflections of Train.
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