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ANDROMEDA { a poem }

ANDROMEDA { a poem }

Galactic storytime. April 19, 2023.

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Kalisa Augustine
Apr 19, 2023
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ANDROMEDA { a poem }
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An old guitar.

Foreign winds.

What’s left of this room?

I was King of the Fires.

Queen, of Wise Councils. 

In a time. On a line.

And my boom still looms… 

Ah, dark pen— 

My note, now found.

This brazen will;

Beating. Bound.

Blooming. Loud. 

It was all on the 

far side of 

an underground wall.

A monolith crumbled. 

The last, great 

fall. 

Glas…

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