Author: claramascarenhas.com
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Between the lines, I will go diving
far from the familiar, from you; my little light. I’ll find you at the surface. Where I lost my reflection below it grows gloomy, the pressure in my bones. And I look up to see your light diluted in salt water. Faint like an old…
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Cold Summer Nights
Undeniably, cold summer nights are the most beautiful when air turns into a cool well of calm and the sky even clearer than the stars. I keep my eyes open just a little longer until I find the big bear, the only constellation I can…
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Cloud Watching
I used to watch the clouds move towards me and away. Lead me through the day My most loyal companions The secret to seeing their steps is to be very still and very quiet. I wanted to move with them…
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The sculptor
If her body is marble what is her heart? A sparkling perfect surface, inside, raw stone. On her face, the smile of a cold blood in the midday sun. Though you snap off daisy heads and shatter grass blades to the ground, she doesn’t feel…
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Ruminations on AI and Humanness
It’s 10:34 pm and I am sitting on my wooden dorm-room chair. Usually, I can’t stand sitting on this box-like chair for more than five minutes, but at this moment things are different. Time, space, and mass cease to exist while I follow Ono’s instructions:…
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Melado de Tempo
I turned the lights off in the greenhouse; turned the plants into picturesque silhouettes. Their artificially sharp edges cut through the blurry gray asphalt. And I know the gray is an illusion of grains, black and white pebbles packed together, refusing to melt and form…
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Me at the corner
Walls run towards each other and meet in the middle, cut each other off. They reach into the room like a pillar, they carry floors and hide what is on the other side. I cross their path, walking by a little too closely. I pass by…
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$5 bouquet
My flowers wilt after two weeks. Three stems are left in the vase, three stems left from a meadow. Some flowers lost their petals, and some dried up, even though I changed the water very carefully every day and carefully cut the stems, I didn’t…