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Coming Undone

in the shadows

By Harper Lewis Published about a month ago • 1 min read
Coming Undone
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Shadows of to-do lists

loom like titans,

dwarfing what’s done,

beating completed tasks

into the shadows.

*This haiku of Tina’s inspired this. When I opened the page, “shadows” and “to-do list” jumped out at me before I could read it from the first line.

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Harper Lewis

Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing!

Intrusive rhyme bothers me, except as a weapon.

Intertextuality is my passion.

Formalist/ New Critical are my guiding theories.

My words are mine, not a robot’s.

MA English literature, CofC

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    Written by Harper Lewis