Friday, January 17, 2025

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Kaouding Cissoko.

squidlike to squint-plantings
squalor flings its pall
these ruins grue roughshod
arrive plainly bane

was ever ill-columned
inch of temple gimp
& fail swilled in foldings
falutin' we'd recruit

only the cloud clownworks
declare beyond air
the word-winging order
waste in fathom traced

Up to the brink.

I used to think getting published in hardback was the logical culmination of writing: but now I know that's like expecting them to erect a bronze statue of you in the town square.

It feels like that moment.

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