Afternoon Notes
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Afternoon Notes

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 29, 20261 min

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This is Wendy Hsu reading my poem Afternoon Notes, after Beidou.

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None of this is meant to be of any consequence.

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This is Wendy Hsu reading my poem Afternoon Notes, after Beidou. A squirrel alone with his thoughts, spiders geometry which you might avoid by rotating your shoulder just so. None of this is meant to be of any consequence. A soreness three quarters up the leg.

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An engine is more than a mumbling cutting with a wince into. Never mind. Rustling another green nut to the feast is what matters now. Choosing the most simple, beautiful words that won't spoil on the half-day journey

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to meet you. A leg hair perks the wind. It stands up without shadow, without panic, without ambition, unable to be judged by standards of human dignity.

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