The Fold
“Let us,” he said
“make man,”
as if he had to ask
someone’s permission
even if always
only
his own.
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To practice is to repeat
what has not yet
occurred.
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We get signals
from the future.
We’re invited to grow
by entwining,
twinning.
Being duplicitous?
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A rose by any other
rose
is its own
paradise
of luminous
folds.
Source: Poetry (July/August 2020)