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"this is not a poem (exactly)" by Tess Ezzy
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"this is not a poem (exactly)"
Tess Ezzy
this is not a poem (exactly)
but a leaf-fall of words unclaimed—
(dear dirt) how softly you
listen
and when wind folds the gumtrees into
parentheses (yes)
what survives is
breath—
a syntax of birds unsinging
•
meanwhile:
Calla walks thru rain’s lowercase
and writes a cloud into her pocket
(a sentence of dew)
Orion maps stars in the dark of the page,
his footnotes wet with ash
•
don’t say hope,
say root
don’t say beauty,
say scar
climate speaks in fracture—
in murmur,
in shiver,
in wait
•
the fire is (still) coming
but
so is
poem
(and what’s the difference,
really?)
More from Tess Ezzy ↓
- @themoodyproject_ on Instagram
- Poetess Press on Substack
You can listen to me read Cross Roads by Tess @rembrandts.cure on Instagram.
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