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Tag: distance

In fluent silence

Published on 22/12/2025 by Maciej ModzelewskiLeave a comment

I have a cheesecake promised
five hundred miles away from here.
It’s not even a blown kiss—a jest, perhaps,
with sunglasses on (that’s London, after all),
or a prolegomenon to a fable
in fluent silence.


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Categories English poetry, poetry•Tags ambiguity, communication, distance, gesture, intimacy, lightness, London, poem, promise, restraint, silence
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