Scissors know our healing
Does not come from books:
Does as
The wind does.
Does arch
As the hand raised over-long.
Does concentrate
On every pose.
Does cheat
For the sake of comfort.
Does define
Both prong and tail.
Does the
Daylights from the living.
Does assign
A dearth stance
Of which we are too familiar, cut
From the background
What scrap is to the stockpiling.
(*Poet-activist who placed a poem online in China
calling for the rights of ‘free expression’ in April
2011 jailed after charge of ‘Subversion’. Amnesty
International & PEN say there is “no release date”.)

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