NOON | journal of the short poem

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THE BEST I CAN SAY OF ANYTHING IS THAT IT WILL END I am a liar. Look: under these clothes I am hiding a body. I’m waiting for an axe, a ditch. I’m shopping for cement shoes, a lake so dark that none of its languages have words for surface or shore.

Emma Bolden


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