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    Ouroboros
    Ouroboros
    Ouroboros
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    Ouroboros

    By Parveen Keynejad

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    Ouroboros is a potent chapbook that touches upon the duality of light and dark. The everyday notions of life--people, love, memory, beliefs-- push the boundaries between positive and negative duality.

    "European Pears"

    Staring out
    an Astoria
    apartment window
    I see
    smokestacks
    from your city-
    façade clouds.
    They form
    into your face
    faking me
    fooling me,
    feelings once
    chained and sunk
    at sea
    now rusty,
    scraping my flakey
    fair skin
    cutting me.
    I never got
    that tetanus shot
    friends screamed
    I should get,
    so now your metal
    lives in my blood
    rotting me
    from the inside out
    like those European pears
    firm strong
    golden sweet
    just take a bite –
    juice drooling into
    bitter brown slush.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUnsolicited Press
    Release dateApr 16, 2017
    ISBN9798201169565
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      Ouroboros - Parveen Keynejad

      Parveen Keynejad

      OUROBOROS

      Copyright © 2017 Parveen Keynejad

      All Rights Reserved.

      Published by Unsolicited Press.

      Printed in the United States of America.

      First Edition.

      No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

      Attention schools and businesses: for discounted copies on large orders, please contact the publisher directly.

      For information contact:

      Unsolicited Press

      Portland, Oregon

      www.unsolicitedpress.com

      [email protected]

      619—354—8005

      Cover Image: Getty Images

      Cover Designer: Kathryn Gerhardt

      Editor: S.R. Stewart

      ISBN: 978—1947021013

      Contents

      Me vs. Me

      Seeing Self in Spring’s Trees

      Feelings, Circa 2010

      European Pears

      Thoughts in January

      Sweets Can Be Sour

      Strange How Memory

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