🏛️ Politics 4h ago · Yasmine Seale

The NS Poem: Nocturne

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The stretching of a bird through darkeningSpace has the structure of a glance.



It stays close to the waterTo need less.



White notches fill the sky, the cellOf a god who has lost countBut still hopes.



Does it end? We can’t all be blessedWith bodies arranged like horizons.



The bird makes a calculation.It is panicking away from the experimentLife could be.



                                   Look                                           after me.



The hours are deepening.



The ai

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