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to peek thru radiant logo
put screwdrivers inside, boil them
until they finally fit in thimbles

The wind weeps like the rapture of a refrigerated volcano

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ad-laced fragments of memory

In your eyes the reflection
of a god unlearning her past

by now there are strange shadows
that move where once lonely footsteps

performed the dance that cried for heaven.

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The near-homophony of “obsequies” (funeral ceremonies) and “obsequious” (bootlicking, sycophantic compliance) invokes a relationship between assimilation and mourning. Consider Hortense Spillers’ argument that commemorative space without …