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“Reprieve” 
–reaction poem to “Oasis” by Arthur Sze from “Into the Hush”

My fingers crawl rapidly across the keys like a creeping spider
on my laptop: what do I make of this world? He stomps into his 
office, as I set up a table, window-dressing my wares. Another 
sleeps in another day, turns over in his room beneath thick 
covers behind thin walls. By afternoon, I wonder what the sky 
will be like. Will clouds race across the blue and grey, rain 
spill like water splashing from the fountain we both sat facing 
yesterday, wetting the stones at our feet?

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