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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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