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Futurity

Sharon Lin
| poetry

 

I start in the direction toward old
town, pigeons in my wake. Imagine futures
emerging in mimetic desire, children

 

Return to the fog, finding the seams                       Become smaller each passing year. I stop
of the oscillation, where it begins                             in a deli and ask if they can help me
pulling us back from the start                                   find my husband. My who? In an instant

 

That familiar pulse of shame. Desire to
forget what was said. Knowing the distance
between us will only grow. I want to

Sharon Lin is a poet and essayist. Her work appears in The New York Review of Books, DIAGRAM, The Kenyon Review, Sine Theta, The Offing, and elsewhere. She lives in London.

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