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“I think of how the mystics read
by the light of their own bodies.
What a world of darkness that must have been
to read by the flaming hearts
that turn into heaps of ash on the altar,
how everything in the end is made
equal by the wind.

— Timothy Liu, from “Vox Angelica,” The New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois University, 2000”
Timothy Liu
“The children set out for school, no books in their packs, a sycamore they have ignored all summer aflame like the gilted-edged pages of a Bible magnified under glass.”
Timothy Liu, Say Goodnight
tags: poetry
“I was always afraid
of the next card

the psychic would turn
over for us—
Forgive me
for not knowing
how we were

every card in the deck.”
Timothy Liu, Don't Go Back to Sleep

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