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after Miguel Hernández's la boca -- the mouth
 
raindrops hitting
the old tape of Auschwitz
slack with sleep
 
just rosy                                    la boca
                                 
 
 
thicket of bodies
flared
come closer war by war
                                                 
enough to live                             la boca
 
 
shadows
lead out of
blue
like starfish
our stories are round
 
unclasping every breath            la boca
 
how many buried mouths
mouthless
we dig up
                                           
 
you are to whisper
to azaleas
you are to swagger
in the nights
whittled into the map of Gaza
you are to toss
in the womb
 
an ensemble                               la boca
 

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Debasis Mukhopadhyay is the author of the chapbook kyrie eleison or all robins taken out of context. His poems have appeared in International Times, Stride, The Honest Ulsterman, Posit, Erbacce, I am not a silent poet, Skinny Poetry Journal and elsewhere. Debasis lives & writes in Montreal, Canada. Follow him at https://debasismukhopadhyay.com/