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Now these next
poems are new, and I

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intend for them to be a
book-length sequence loosely

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inspired by manga and anime
in which the speaker is

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a human who is in love with
a shapeshifting monster.

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One of his forms
happens to be a human.

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So the title is "Bakemono,"
which is Japanese for monster.

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"Metropolis winter, what
of the hothouse bromeliad,

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song at the threshold, the wind
at my back, a panic of birds,

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and through the
portico, abandoned hope?

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The wind asilo, petals flapping
like hounds, what have I

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wrought, this funeral in
which the road to hell

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is paved white?

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I loved a monster.

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I loved his humanoid form,
body fulcrum, and light speed.

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I loved his manifold
grief, mouth

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a hive of honey and stingers.

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My incubus, my augury, my
contract, my ticket, my life,

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I summoned, he answered
saying, he had always known me.

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The city walled in
snow, our only island."

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