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when i brew silence for one, it
gathers arched and unkindly,
stretching like camel skin over
a tambourine into the distant
sciamachy of mágoa, bubbling
at our transparent
surfaces.

do not
recidivate with me; if you
must, cater to my finifugal
genuflection.
i wait for yugen, breaking
my horizon with the vermillion
of your universe where
the cafuné we share over
sleepy cups of dormiveglia,
is no longer a privilege but
the resfeber that settles
and sinks till it is permanent.

as i harvest silence on my own, i still
watch brontide after brontide
escape the nooks of your half-
perpendicular jaw, dreading
the war your metanoia might entail
and set aflame. do not
watch my nefelibata wanderings
with scrutiny; i may succumb
to drinking sleep out of syrup
bottles, finding peace in obeying

all eleven books in my library
a stowed away tacenda.
(n.) a kind of psychological exoskeleton that can protect you from pain and contain your anxieties, but always ends up cracking under pressure or hollowed out by time—and will keep growing back again and again, until you develop a more sophisticated emotional structure, held up by a strong and flexible spine, built less like a fortress than a cluster of treehouses.

"my library has ____ books" is the title of one of my all-time favourite Anis Mojgani's poems. i may or may not have been calming myself with indiefeed podcasts.
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