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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/925475
by Rhyssa Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 18+ · Book · Contest Entry · #1912256
a descent into poetry insanity
#925475 added December 17, 2017 at 3:14pm
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Kiribati: Greeting the New Year
we see the year first.
it rises over the ocean,
and passes the line
that turns today
into tomorrow—
a crooked line
tearing the Pacific
in two, like a child
with scissors.
we see the new year,
as the ground
shifts beneath our feet,
dissolving.
soon, all that’s left
of our land
will be salt water
and drowning.
then, where
will the new year come?


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