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Consciousness, Literature and the Arts

 

Volume 19 Number 2/3 August/December 2018

(Final Issue)

 

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Maya Nanitchkova Öztürk

  

Lethal nearness

 

Once

before you

I am.

Stripped. Rare.

I shift into me.

Off my performances.

Off remembrance.

Off desire.

 

I’m there.

Nearly.

Beyond your lids…

 

Beware.

 

For how would you know

yourself

from me

if I disclaim disparity,

release confines,

abandon pressure...

That is –

if I cease to be

in the ‘looking’ domain

    and attain my essence…

Bare fissure…

 

Beware.

 

For with me

within

you

ought to sense,

that I am apt

to craft,

immerse, dissolve…

 

And what’s more –

that, hence,

you

are

beyond

reprieve.