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Katarina Bajić's avatar

Love here is feral, comic, doomed, and still worth saying yes to. By the time the captain goes silent, the poem has become exactly what it insists it is: a lullaby for people who know better and go anyway.

James Penha's avatar

Oh, this is grand stuff.

Andrea Jurjević's avatar

"the sea is only waist deep" and I'm happily drowning in it ❤️

R.F.PENN's avatar

Siken never fails to leave me dizzy and lingering in his prose.

Amanda's avatar

'Dizzy' is such a perfect description. Dizzy & undone.

T R Poulson's avatar

I really love how this meanders around and makes sense out of the strange. Text book on how to write a prose poem