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No Lord but Butterflies (a poem from the bookshelf)

Graphic by Clarence E. Hsu

This is not wreck enough to drown— this is little fires 
in the water, another day. Give me a date and a time—
Give me no lord, but give me butterflies. 
Give me a new anthology of modern deep and I will sing
the song of everything— everything I never told you, and everything 
I spoke into the palm of another: I will mockingbird the stars 
with my body— let six people in, give them night vision;
This planet is too perfect to stay lonely. Look,
look at hunger and look at fire and do not let it kill the mockingbird. 
Let her sing you home.