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Dec 26
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Yellow Sweater

Silk Cities

I build cities from dancing ribbons, 
breathing wind into the tiles of recollection and imagination: 
cold bricks, warm clay, wet lips. 

I want to be Marco Polo, 
to map my memories with extraordinary facts.  

The silk road was a solid delineation, 
a moving line of moments. 

Nonfiction is Nonsense. Nonsense is Nonlinear. 
A narrative flows like silk, like a road, like a city:
cold bricks, warm clay, wet lips.

 
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Posted: 12.26.20
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  1. Yellow Sweater
    Dec 26, 2020

    inspired by Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.

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  1. ivy.vine
    Jan 06, 2021

    I love this poem so much. I was drawn to the name, but the vibes or this poem are just immaculate. I can't explain it.

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  1. Yellow Sweater
    Jan 16, 2021

    Aw thank you so much!

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