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"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
- William Shakespeare


Emily Strauss


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Ideogram

the interior of the word
like a Chinese symbol—
sound attached to its shape
as if listening inside a sea
shell to a distant roar living
within its opalescence,
hold your ear to the radical
and hear Du Fu writing
silently in his grass hut,
an exile from his hearth