“Kintsugi”, a poem by Æ et al.

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You’re listening to The Voice of Dog.

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This is Rob MacWolf your fellow traveler,

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and Today we present a poem

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by Æ et al., a poet composed of several dragons in a trench coat.

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Please enjoy “Kintsugi”,

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a poem by Æ et al.

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1. the vessel broke upon the wheel

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hands too rough on earth so soft

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it went into the fire

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regardless a spirit

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seeped out from the cracks

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gnashing teeth, lashing tail,

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undirected further cracking

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its porcelain shell

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2. a dragon coalesced from the smoke and begun hoarding the shards,

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first as a pile and then replacing scales

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one by one, shielding raw earth always new stress fractures, new weld joints

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of molten gold between porcelain scales

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3. what a novel concept –

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to celebrate signs of failure

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aren’t you made of tougher stuff?

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you’re of the same earth, the same fire

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so what did you do that wasn’t enough?

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4. clumsy claws shiny scales

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rebuilding itself

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coiling ‘round broken jar

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a facsimile of the original design

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This was “kintsugi”

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by Æ et al., read for you by Rob MacWolf,

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Werewolf Hitchhiker.

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