Lantern Review: A Journal of Asian American Poetry
Issue 1 | June 2010

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there is no such thing as one-way action like:

i read you. stop.

you fuck me. stop.

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geometry is divisive. lines, angles, bisection. parallel and // paralyzed.

divisive is strangely pleasing to the eye, a futile // symmetry.

triplets // in 4/4 time.

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Sometimes I forget I share
language.

You use
the same words
I use.

But not these:

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monsters the sea creates

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