Vernon Adrian Emuang Poems

It went that way.

It did - the way a spring begins.
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The ebb and flow
like tick and tock
(like knotches?)
and push and pull
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This shard of light
that skates across my heart
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Come with me, said the fish to the crab
and I will show you a cave where beautiful coral live.
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The baptismal water dried decades ago,
leaving only a faint salt crust on the skin
and the smell of damp hymnals.
They wanted the universe pinned to a board like a dead beetle,
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