Ovid by Dawid Juraszek

things change

not me who said it first

but might as well have

for you said it best

wove it best

dyed it

shaped and molded

to match and make

into morphings and musings

worth preserving

capable of enduring

copied and pasted

on a spectrum

that loops around

hues and shades

mix and merge

eternally

keeping things in place

fixing that point in time

when he thought to herself

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Dawid Juraszek is the author of 'Medea and Other Poems of the Anthropocene' (Kelsay Books 2020). A bilingual writer and educator based in China, he is working on a PhD project in cognitive ecocriticism at Maastricht University. His fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have appeared in multiple venues in Poland, the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand.