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Rapture

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Repression

Rapture

Speaking binds us
to the words we use, even
misconstrued ones—

            or worse—

words heard and interpreted correctly. Speech
sets thought into permanent space.

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Entitled

Sometimes I pretend
I'm the only one that cares
about something—

                        or even knows it exists—

just so that I feel special, so that I feel
like I am something

everyone else is not.

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Repression

A mark across
            an expressionless face—
                        eyes

that search
for a remnant thread.

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AMISH TRIVEDI's first book, Sound/Chest, is coming out soon from Coven Press. Poems of his have been in Kenyon Review Online, New American Writing, Open Letters Monthly and a variety of other places with more forthcoming in The Laurel Review. His reviews are in Sink, Pleaides and a few other places. He is the managing editor of N/A and lives and teaches in Rhode Island.

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