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word/s all I see in limbo Alegria Imperial a sequence of one-line poems

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word/s all I see in limbo

Alegria Imperial

a sequence of one-line poems

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word/s all I see in limbo© 2020 Alegria Imperial.All rights reserved.Reprint in any form or media only after permission from the author.Layout: Johannes S. H. BjergPublished in DenmarkPart of the Bones Librarywww.bonesjournal.com

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word/s all I see in limbo

Alegria Imperial

a sequence of one-line poems

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night’s gritty breath a sky I can’t find

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a worn-out void rippling in my chest

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in the eye a mountain cloud uncoiling a tail

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absent spring roped sunrays in braids

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where wildness hurts the tangled sedge

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wheatgrass all that winds need to be

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groaning oaks the shift to a mirage

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contrails filling in for distressed comets

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a ruckus of slimy verbs ageing the well

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fly traps sentences dismantled day in and the next

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a loosened chignon dawn snaking in mulch beds

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children’s dappled heads the undulating flagstones

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where creation begins and ends onion scales

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all seeds of grief unlabeled

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mid-orbit a daisy chain snaps into screams

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over cratered ill will a wordstorm booms

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zenith haze eye-dust swarm chokes the rain

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stench from sighs rotting piths to mull over

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the brittle solstice a thickened stillness

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a birthing breeze splinters

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shirred waves from shadows to abstracts of fear

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no other soul released for logos implant

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unbecoming is the moon because of bruises?

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un-sowed seeds a thorny foot trail

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winged rumors drowning in geyser waves

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a swish swash of alien tides weary the sea

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measured pain the sphere contracting

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bared to slivered flames off a concave I teeter

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in the ears of me not me taunting

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if a sun from limbo descends to stay would I wear it?

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AcknowledgementsSome poems in this book were published on the website of the following journals: Bones a journal for the short poem, otata, and Under the Basho. I am grateful to their editors. Others were posted in Blogger monostitch. Artwork: Photos reworked from author’s files.

About Alegria Imperial

A former journalist in the Philippines, Alegria graduated with a degree of Literature in Journalism. Her discovery of haiku decades later, started her writing short Japanese po-etry forms. Her works have since been widely published in international journals and anthologies with some gaining awards. She immigrated to Canada 14 years ago, where she now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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