Excerpt from The Paper Camera by Youmna Chlala

They still purge the city of poets. It’s an ancient game
extracted like the good leaves, the ones you eat first.

We find ourselves again at this juncture, language
a utilitarian artifice, artificial, arc-en-ciel, feu d’artifice

Glued to an image
conjecture, color, perspective, topology, anatomy

Glued to a body
Wool. Gum. Gun. Wire.

We wonder, can they really be after us?
the universe, not expanding but stretching

© Youmna Chlala, from The Paper Camera (Litmus Press, 2019)

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