3.18.2026

BLUE HARBOR | NINE-PASS ERASURE

Photo: William Navarro

blue harbor
     blue harbor

where war
     and its inebriate
singing drones

     are the cruel mouth
of beauty

     a translation
of unblinking night

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SOURCE TEXT
Wendy Xu, “Phrasis”

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