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🦋 The Domestication of Lightning

Another Infrarealist poem: this is by Guadalupe Ochoa, one of the few female Infrarealists.

The Domestication of Lightning
by Guadalupe Ochoa/ tr. Jeremy Osner

the lightning of touch announces
the downpour engendered in our embrace
fiery water of our bodies

posted morning of Monday, December second, 2013
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"Heralds" has a little nicer imagery to it than "announces" but the initial unstressed syllable of the latter is key. One possibility: "the lighting of touch is herald to/ the downpour..."

posted evening of December second, 2013 by J

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