Leave
By Monica Youn
because it is to create an acute
angle an angle shaped like a
wedge because it is to give
birth to what you already know
to be expendable after it
has cleaned after it has fed
you because you are enriched
by even its deterioration because
the join might seem slender
like a throat because the bud might
seem tender like a bud but in this
tenderness you do not share you
do not share anything because even
the join is also a jamb a harbinger
of scab a rust-red portal that shuts
down what it depletes that shuts
out the obsolete because you keep
what is inside from seeping out
because you keep what is outside from
slipping in because in the singular
and as a noun you are a form
of formal permission as in why
don’t you make like a tree and…
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