futamigaura/stanford cheung/2020
ANIMA
When do we pretend to sleep
To lay down and
watch the world flicker
To simply mean
I have time to kill
with sleep to eat
I weed them up my collar
on a censored star
Every night
I dream the perfect story
of buckwheat outside,
the cold sky
and closed eyelids
And all the cities
inside
while you lay asking
Where all life is a life
And all alive where life
may live
Where life shoots
itself
to sleep the city
at bay
Their light
like bullets
indifferent
yet shining
NOVEMBER
Towards the life after us with our
lonely hearts
Another city with the sight of each other
growing apart
towards the life after us
Towards the life that grows apart
on another life
other than you I walk together with
as we grow apart
towards the life that will be
On another city that brings us apart
On another life
together with you
towards the year that passes
on another city with our treasured
hearts as we grow apart
towards the life after us
in a city together with another
Stanford Cheung is a poet from Toronto. His work appears in anthologies and publications such as Nomadic Journal, Tokyo Poetry Journal, Ricepaper, and Prompt. He is the author of the full-length collections “Structures from the Still” (Akinoga Press, 2018) and “Demonstrator” (Andata Express, 2020 forthcoming). Among his collaborative collections include “We Could Be Anything” (Crevasse Books, 2019), “Comfort of Malice” (Inspiritus, 2018) and “Any Seam or Needlework” (Operating System, 2016). Stanford is also active as a pianist performing throughout North America, Canada and Asia. stanfordcheung.com
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