Paradise

novalis
Jun 20, 2023

Before the summoning of countless worlds —

A last fall in the obsolescence of sleep. You were

Showered in repressions and denials: new and disjunctive

Processes emerged from underground and swallowed

You like Jonah in the whale. You were traced to nowhere

And thereby assumed to be dead. You were stretched taught,

Painted over, even while paradise was never far from here.

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