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_____,,___
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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
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one blue woman entering the sleeping house
the red and white lake of flowers
the unreasonably obvious
sapphire ring |
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These things |
- your |
hat |
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ears |
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hair |
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mustache |
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these |
hands |
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hair |
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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
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Those who strive to fly are murmured in exhalation
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