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LIBER

o passarinho preso

no apartamento

as janelas

abertas

seu voo ansioso

emudece as deusas

lá fora

- AR

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from here

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Tell me I'm living,

I won't believe you.

- Louise Glück

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SPENT

Suffer as in allow.

List as in want.

Listless as in transcending

desire, or not rising

to greet it.

To list 

is to lean,

dangerously,

to one side.

Have you forgotten?

Spent

as in exausted.

- Rae Armantrout

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I’m positive you aren’t thinking about me which is fine

- Rae Armantrout

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out'f breath out'f body out'f'riends

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THE BROKEN SANDAL

Dreamed the thong of my sandal broke.
Nothing to hold it to my foot.
How shall I walk?
                Barefoot?
The sharp stones, the dirt. I would
hobble.
And–
Where was I going?
Where was I going I can’t
go to now, unless hurting?
Where am I standing, if I’m
to stand still now?

- Denise Levertov

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I was so sure my love of you was perfect

- Michael Ryan

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ZAZEN ON CHING-T'ING MOUNTAIN

The birds have vanished down the sky.

Now the last cloud drains away.

We sit together, the mountain and me,

until only the mountain remains.

- Li Po

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I stood inside myself

like a dead tree or a tower.

- Gregory Orr

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