...

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........................your shamisen, Buddha dreams
.......................of deicide with arms half-bent in
.......................embrace; romanticized punctuation
........................a reduced dove, its wings
...........................plucked Flowers of Edo--

..............*

I metamorphose into water
paint your mixed motion
...... [why the buzzing
bristle tips lingering like
feather palms, lamentation?]

it was you who held me in your hands
& desexed me at once
yet still the struck chord buzzes

...........................sawari--sawari

[loudly, at first, then hummed]