Ocean View Drive, Z.Z. Wei
“we question the way we stop and admire”
we question days ahead now
“making ends meet”
the body and its outcomes lie
blinking in a room
“we drift closer” to a sunset
sentimental
off-limits to anyone but those
in the grip of concentration
[to sleep with
al-furud “the bright single ones”
sustained points taken out of conversation
clouds trailing days “continuously
shrunk to a point”
illusion regrows the body we set sail on]
an eye my breathing gesture
and every reversal* to type
arranging peaks around you
the way we stop and admire
what now derives from the clouds
* [sic]
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Arkava Das