A Girl on the Swing - Chungmi Kim
She sees the mountain
upside down.
With her long hair sweeping the fallen leaves she swings like a pendulum.
From the lagoon at sunset a hundred sparrows fly away.
Wishing them back she whistles softly. And downward she falls into the sky.
Remembering a girl on the swing who fell into the sky and vanished.
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love is a place - e.e.cummings
love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places
yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skilfully curled) all worlds
A prefect poem, on love and "yes", both of which are hard to do and get to.
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She Writes in Spanish to Someone She Knew - Paulette Jiles
She writes in Spanish to someone she knew, but she never knew him very well at all. At her side are a list of words that are supposed to mean what she wants to say, along with a picture of the last time she saw him and a Coleman lamp. I am far away, she writes, importantly. All over the village lamps are coming on, people turn up their evening mentality and light themselves, they shine around car games and food.
Actually, I am not so far away, she writes. I am extremely close.
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