Uche Nduka
|  | A PEBBLE'S DEBATE
A pebble's debate with a shoreline.
This is the line,this is the mail. It is what you see. This whitening into dissatisfaction. It is what you live.
Forgive me if I have affronted the breath That gladdens your sleep.
THESE ARIAS
His clog's drabber than her denim baggy.
Their bare page blares out there.
The thing I know about life sweet-talking me is that I believe it so far.
I assent to my premiss, to my excess.
These arias and me in you.
| | SEIZURE
To throw up a pumpkin and plant a gong inside the earth.
At teatime a toccata eating crawfish.
A love building up an afternoon.
How can you resist it? Pass on the pipe.
At teatime such sound as was Ligeti's.
The dervishing that wove our consummation.
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