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Poetry

Metal Alexandria

Fiberoptic scrolls on

Gold and copper shelves

Within your architecture

Of aluminum alloy

Amorphous Alexandria

Terabytes coalesce as

Castles in the sky

You suffuse our skin

Flow through our

lungs

And cannot feel your touch

Tragic Alexandria

How will you finally die?

Will you crumble like a tower?

Will you flicker like a flame?

Or will you

dance

ashes

in wind?

the

I was formed while separated Eggs extracted sperm vacated

..................Column Break..................I was with someone in the womb Sisters shared a pulsing

tomb

I even while incubated

I sing in no syncopation Bow to no one’s expectation Of these persons’ integration

..................Column Break..................

Felt my single soul

..................Column Break..................Just at birth in that white room I

I bear my love even though she Would vanish to be rid of me Determined that we cannot be

Two halves of a whole

I’ll escape my bonds one day Seize freedom and carve a new way And no one then will ever

say she’s

..................Column Break..................She never really thought it through That butchering she’ll

suffer to Detach herself just to eschew

One magnetic pole

My name is Lorelyn Nolte. I am a double major in Creative Writing and Professional Writing at Miami University, and I hope to work as an editor after graduation. I plan to write mainly fantasy and horror novels in my spare time, although I also enjoy creating poetry and short stories.

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