Joshua Lean
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The Farmer in Bonne Terre.A Poem by Joshua Leanhe is standing like a mosquethe noise of prayer blowing out of him in steady whispers. the sun iscolouring itself on his skin, mighty hues of purplish.. |
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Poetic Justice.A Poem by Joshua LeanSomething that came after listening to Kendrick Lamar. |
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Scheherazade.A Poem by Joshua LeanWho is wild with keeness?A liquified sense of danger?,To reach high enough to pluck a star from its dreams?Alive with nothing but smokeAnd a drunken h.. |
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Moondive.A Poem by Joshua LeanIf you wish to know the politics of a dead man Set his body on a hill And let man take his bones for arms Let the battle be fierce But no so fier.. |
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Songs for Ruby.A Poem by Joshua LeanHome. It is where all essence breathes, It is where my veins throb hard against My skin. It is where my lungs learn new things. I have brought wh.. |
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You.A Poem by Joshua LeanI wrote you yesterday,strung these words into song.until my balladry began to breathe the same airsthat swam your glorious lungs.And with that, I coul.. |
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The Joust.A Poem by Joshua Lean''We are locked in a contest where we must either act or perish" - Xerxes. The air is fresh. But stuttered. In a way that excites our bones.. |
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What The Water Gave Me.A Poem by Joshua LeanInspired by Florence + The Machine's song with the same title. |
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Hadrian's Mausoleum.A Poem by Joshua LeanThe cause remainsStill.But the voice has gathered tenor.A strange cantus firmus.Like influenza.Now the proselytizers itch.Because their hands cannot l.. |
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Troubadour.A Poem by Joshua LeanTo be read on the wide balconies of ‘if only’.According to formative epistemology,I was born withoutKnowledge of your shape.I did not lear.. |