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The Uncaptain of a Nonship

You are un-directing the passage, right? You are non-navigating the ship I feel, in long hysterical drifts      that I am on the formless threshold           of an enormous room without walls      ...

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You are un-directing the passage, right?

You are non-navigating the ship

I feel, in long hysterical drifts

     that I am on the formless threshold

          of an enormous room without walls

               and that you are slamming doors

 

David Stone is a New York City based writer whose book 21 Poems was published this year.

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