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Learn from crabs

the peaceful art of going backwards,

learn to unlearn,

go shoeless, digress,

surprise yourself yet again,

look at an apple until you liberate it

from the fine dust of allegory,

know nothing

about what you should know,

forget artificial rhetoric

and the boring mechanics of the atom,

look without saying I am looking,

love without saying I am loving,

leave verses unfinished,

leave verses,

leave.

Decreation

Sharon Dolin, translation from
the Catalan written by Gemma Gorga

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