LIGHT SPILLHere are not Physics poems; here are poems influenced by Physics’s imagination.2023
Laura Mota-Juang
Taiwanese-Brazilian shameless experimentalist.
Montreal, Canada
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the cows are benevolent and full of flies // Newborn and Dead Walk HomeI pinch them with my nails. maliciously, the flowers ask:
Do you think we’re enough to fill your lack?
“No… You’re not enough but you’re not a filling,
you’re a peace offering.”
I give them a compact smile. I haven’t been crying.
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it's scarier if I can't drownyou find me soaking the bathroom floor.
tiles wet with a mix of freshwater and eye-brine.
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Paywalled
unit of ordealwhen we lay on the sand as a triangle
trying to invoke some truthful looking,
there’s much disturbance.
might be the sky or the shadow of a leaf
that distract us
from actually staring at the upstairs’ void.
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loud noise covering any doubts How can a plan for two
be completed by one?
From here, I know
there will be no return to complicity.
Let’s start over,
I hear you or the water crashing.
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