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Today's poem is by John Yau

After Rilke
       

I would describe myself
as a flinty expression

found in remnant
pile of sacked sky

an unrepeatable
self-designed

tattoo
card

I want to upload
these images

to the Internet
the hereafter of heaven

never complete
already infinite

Porous
poor us

or pour
us

I want
to stay

in this
place

a little different
than before



Copyright © 2020 John Yau All rights reserved
from Journal of New Jersey Poets
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission

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