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utmost virtue

Alston Chu (writer), Carolyn Huane (graphics)

name winds more surely than children or virtues of the land ‘Mercy’ and sea ‘Patience’

Creative

travel heavy tread light, as the crow flies
(murder on my feet) and
murder on my mind)
aspire to keep promises as bladder stones &
frosting bones honour the steppe

hard hart scarps mend and lend body that
dense bread neath dark stars carve (from a land)
carven through by mountain venge
a revel in supplication

name winds more surely than children
or virtues of the land
‘Mercy’
and sea
‘Patience’

short strokes shape a long sharpness
though polishers know the touch of grit
blunts the burr
plentiful among golden shine

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