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Timely

May 1, 2016
By RexHsieh GOLD, Shanghai, Other
RexHsieh GOLD, Shanghai, Other
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Favorite Quote:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.


The visage of taffeta & shawl

gave her away. I thought
we had a spark of romance.

 

A door opened;
there was a backyard.
That panel of glass shattered.

 

I witnessed it;
I heard the way my heart pounded
as though I was the door.

 

I asked myself
why pieces of my self
appear stifled by themselves.

 

Feel the breeze, she said
before she left. The remnants
of her voice form one state,

 

the reality is the other.
The ticks are unwinding,
I replied—and imagined

 

how every one of them
sprawls wide open,
as shreds of her taffeta

 

become unspoken time
whispered to my ears.



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