THERE IS MORE TO LIFE, THERE IS MORE,
like the stillness
in the still imaginative hour of an unmade thing.
Like the empowerment
in the now-deaths in me. There is more
life
than life seems happy to carry. There is more
than afterlives, curtains, and exits. There is more
than the space you call majestic. There is more
green
than the green your eyes get to eat. There is more
to drink
than your thirsty glasses. There is more
to me
than there is to me. There is more
than there is more
than there is more
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Ayşe Tekşen lives in Ankara, Turkey, where she works as a research assistant at the Department of Foreign Language Education, Middle East Technical University. Her work has been included in Brickplight, the Willow Literary Magazine, Fearsome Critters, Susan, the Broke Bohemian, the Remembered Arts Journal, Terror House Magazine, Shoe Music Press, Havik: Las Positas College Anthology, Deep Overstock, Lavender Review, Voice of Eve, the Courtship of Winds, Mojave Heart Review, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Tipton Poetry Journal, Rigorous, Rabid Oak, the Thieving Magpie, Headway Quarterly, the Roadrunner Review, Helen: A Literary Magazine, the Ilanot Review, and Pensive.
- Email: ayseteksen@gmail.com
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