The word for "sea" or "ocean" derives from the character for "mother" with on top, the character for "always" and, beside it, the one for "liquid."

Edoardo Fazzioli, Chinese Calligraphy (trans. Geoffrey Culverwell)i ( Read more... )

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Replication. Of days, of stars.
A ledge to lean over gauges the distance
to certain death. I have sat
naked to the passing clouds
as they altered the freckles on my skin.
The chairs I’ve thrown out for the pleasure
of wanting them back.
I have scars from glass
where I was shattered. Urgent spasm
of wind. I started out a girl in the tower.
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She is two parts flesh ( Read more... )

Apple

When observed from across the hallway,
it’s a heart on a plate. My roommate consumes

two hours to cut it: first in quarters,
then tenuous slices that find their vanishing

point on her tongue. She is a kitchen
inside the kitchen where there’s no place

to hide, no future but in thinning towards the core.
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