I Had Meant To Say

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November looks like this:
Pale thin violet first frost against a full moon.

The end of time
is a slow passing into the other
(first the tips of my fingers
and then everything else (
To remind me) I am not the centre
which draws itself into itself into itself into itself.
The centre itself is the vapid,
porous edge of each day
Passing into itself into itself into itself,
as it spills into the next.
I’d like to write and tell you all of this.
It would already be this –
There is nothing but the circle

There is no hope but the present haunting us forever
There is no hope but the present
There is no hope but forever.

Magdalaina Teeuwsen is an MA student based in Montreal-Tiohtià:ke. She studies absence and mysticism and spends her time sitting by the river, going for runs, and reading books. When she is not engaged in these pursuits, she is otherwise wasting her potential.

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