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Day 1: Flooded Modern City<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yesterday, I did not open the dragon boat race. Sat in my place though Harvest Moon still got a lot of men to eat. She\u2019s a small evolved town, a wrath through whaling streets. Not my home ocean, not my water scoundrel. I\u2019m a transplant of deniability, says words which arrive with the increase of multiculturalism. At doorstep despite unpassable roads, I\u2019m a transplant. Honest.<\/p>\n

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Day 2: Vicinity<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Day after sea block a pilgrimage, Nephew make oil barge markings. Others (people who must choose) go look at wooden yacht. If the family uncomfortable, might be trade success. Might not be a many-legged reflection. Not the pool of drowned wings surging to overtake sky.<\/p>\n

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Day 3: Southern Coasts<\/strong><\/p>\n

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No one walks by who belongs to the house and its spring thaw except Nephew, a charity of the Southern coast. No one around means military street dance, megaphone church revival become summer summer resort. No limits, little harbor, go play. Mix thin paint on beach. Higher, still many tourists slap X on cliffs, spill purified water. No one looks home for cost of food. So poor, Night shuts out new and cruel sun, decides to close shop and eat lunch. We all raise hands when asking for forgiveness, but lucky sirens dance past gas station, yank power, scatter cake.<\/p>\n

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Day 4: New Port<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Since I newly arrived in the Southern district of New Better, rain has not cleansed skin. Supposed to be early 20th Century American Millionaire Summer Resort, but those who have inherited a failure, cannot afford chronic. Nor can we avoid tacky transformation when sun go down. Little bodies rise from ground hungry for moisture, angry to be caught against wood. Don\u2019t ask me why there is no door. Why the invitation includes an invisible curse. Why I only noticed now how no one returns to say hello. Hello.<\/p>\n

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Day 5: Monument<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Despite swarms, clear blue nephew wanna go for a walk. First stop is well-known mound in war of independence near small hill.\u00a0Step inside, a total of 297 large specimens. Similar style memorial built by very spectacular foreign scabs, closer but smaller, see dazzling monitors. It\u2019s a hard-core colony now though early signs of sharp decline. A memorial still got a lot of men to eat.<\/p>\n

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Author\u2019s Note: <\/em>These poems are from a speculative poetic series,\u00a0formerly FloodLand,\u00a0<\/em>a mash-up written in conversation with recent flooding in Houston and sourced partly from translated Facebook statuses written by my father.<\/p>\n

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