All posts tagged: refugee

February 2

February 2, 2017
by C
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poetry

a border is a boundary or a perimeter that defines a place in physical space but in gerund form bordering implies proximity to a dangerous extreme each sense topical timely but also ominous its antonym  it’s hard to name exact shades of gray winter sky suitcloth ashy ashen censer censor one is smoke the other smoke and mirrors what is implied implicitly can still be false scarier is complicity best to clearly state a border […]

January 28

January 28, 2017
by C
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poetry

Unseasonable warmth, a more agitated sunset, or maybe it wasn’t– anything can be anything, now. Say it’s eighty out, say it snowed, say it’s for our good and temporary as if this has never happened before– and I will say that this sky is pink and orange as ripe citrus, this breeze bitter as pith, this wind unsettled, this night falling harder, the way a fist does, or a downpour, or a spring-loaded door