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Brenda Iijima is the author of Around Sea (O Books, 2004). Her book, Animate & Inanimate Aims is forthcoming from Litmus Press. Some of her work can be viewed on-line at phillysound.blogspot.com and can be downloaded from www.wickedness.net . She lives in Brooklyn, NY where she runs Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.

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Wistful?         Fistful?
This fluid way of thinking?
                           Foreshortening?

The significance of a white handkerchief?
So that the organism will survive?
Total annihilation in an expanding universe?
How we learned this?
The smoldering?
Embossed by sound? The sounds of joy
Emitted from your lips, your limbs, the
Well deep inside you?
Are you there There for the taking?
Will this curb envy A female signal?
To give joy?
                                     Soignée? Simplify? An
                             assassination?
               Our ramparts, the now encapsulations,
Entomology?