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For Those Who Strive to Fly
by Amira Hanafi

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The bottles shine their plumes of blue phosphorous
the ten mouths of the forest

In the trees vague birds in fresco_______
- the air a little violent________ ____
- to say_________________

I want your eyes___________
their diamond plunges__
full of glaciers_____,,___

All is resisting

- his head his eye
he is desired
and agreeable

All is resisting

the blue flame lingers over blue fronds in profound accord

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In America the dead bird kings a lost brass souvenir

______- incandescent encores of remorse

 

- I am not alone
these things - I love to adore

one blue woman entering the sleeping house

emerges

 


the red and white lake of flowers

the unreasonably obvious
sapphire ring

 


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These things
- your
hat
    ears
    hair
    mustache
     
these
hands
    hair
and
poverty

 



 

 

to aspire to does not repeat
            the eye like a maker

                                    entices
                                    or makes a face

                        -I wait for your voice
not to lose others in deliriousness

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The variety with which the great reflect will make their god alarmed

He who you look at
_____is also about you

________and that is also
who you're after


Those who strive to fly are murmured in exhalation