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Family Reunions as Medieval Rituals

by: Nina Anin


Two triangles balanced by a slacked- jaw bulb

Asymmetrical, leaning tower of Pisa is now

leaning tower of Christmas

Metatron attends ballet practice on top

Metatron is a frazzled archivist of whodunnits:

Who changed the God of Fortune to Santa Claus

Who confused tangyuan with turkey thighs

Who dug up the legal thrillers that were meant to only be read

like quarreling through cell towers, at night

At the party, pin debt declarations on the memorials

hastily pulled up from yellowed newspaper clippings

wish for Metatron to tell you who paid whose stocking stuffers

No one cares for dinner anyways, just sigh

bless then flee

Rinse and repeat next year, familial love

recast as inconvenient medieval rituals by

marriage vows, bolded by bitterness


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