A Countdown in Poems to the Irish Arts Center PoetryFest

Poem #5: And Then It Was Less Bleak Because We Said So, by Wendy Xu

October 26, 2015  By Literary Hub
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For the next eight days Literary Hub will help in counting down the days until the seventh-annual Irish Arts Center PoetryFest begins by publishing a poem, as selected by festival co-curator Belinda McKeon. 

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And Then It Was Less Bleak Because We Said So, by Wendy Xu  

Today there has been so much talk of things exploding

into other things, so much that we all become curious, that we

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all run outside into the hot streets

and hug. Romance is a grotto of eager stones

anticipating light, or a girl whose teeth

you can always see. With more sparkle and pop

is the only way to live. Your confetti tongue explodes

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into acid jazz. Small typewriters

that other people keep in their eyes

click away at all our farewell parties. It is hard

to pack for the rest of your life. Someone is always

eating cold cucumber noodles. Someone will drop by later

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to help dismantle some furniture. A lot can go wrong

if you sleep or think, but the trees go on waving

their broken little hands.

 

 

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