Poem by the Danish poet Johannes L. Madsen (1942-2000)

spilt out sputtering with acid

        spilt out sputtering with acid

and with all thoughts ignited flailing

                        in divided mandarins

                separated and fully ripe lapping

        in green light and flight

                        with indifferent touches

                                sucked through the minute

                        seething with juice and spilt out

                from hopscotch and mandarins

        hopping on the flower

                in clumsy circles above

                        mirror-like puddles into

                                a face of smoke and no

                        fire ignited sputtering

                of mandarins but a face

        smoking with acid flash

and corroding in someone’s corneas

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