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Eileen Tabios – (tabios)


Eileen Tabios

From THE BOOK



(after Natasha Bedington’s “Take Me Away” and Christian Hawkey’s “The Book of Funnels”)

A face thinking
               Dead fly
               on windowsill
               between us

—fly on windowsill?
“You didn’t laugh.”

But I am secretly telling
you, The sun drinks
                                  wine, thus, sets…

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