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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

what if...

i wrote a poem about nothing
and nothing came to mind
then,
the unbearable lightness of nothing
would suddenly
be everything.

Posted by Jonathan Power at 2:33 PM

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Last Daze in the Hollow Scene
Pandemic Journal
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Red Queen Hypothesis
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The Better Nature of Our Angels
The Secret Language of Botany
The UnFamiliar Narrative of Kiddhartha V. Jones
Washington, D.C.
Weedblossoms
What The Last Goddess Wanted

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neruda. espada. nada. heaney. muldoon. light of the moon. dickinson. walt. thirty year old single malt. walcott. chuck d. a redwood tree. baraka. gwendolyn brooks. subversive looks. percy shelley. nothing on the telly.

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in the beginning, was the Word:

verb superb,
noun much preferred,

the Word heard
as the ashes of adjectives

were duly interred,
predicates popped

out of subject wombs,
another scary infinitive

loomed, and all
incidental misspellings

were swept away
by editorial brooms.

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