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How to fold an origami evening with a time traveling paper-boat on a paper-ocean (a pantoum)

Fold an ink-blue evening with lost boats, whiskey lies, and paper dreams.

June 15, 2025

Take a deep ink-blue sky & a time-traveling paper-boat that’s lost its way;

Fold the Sun, forgotten; troglodytes and beachcombers on left-wise

half-sunken bottles, blue crabs & us – nearby a stray clementine lay…

A lost paper-boat may jettison one evening with whiskey-scented lies.

Fold the Sun; forgotten troglodytes and beachcombers on left-wise

A sea on vacation, back-floats, waiting – an unpenned plan yonder lay

a lost paper-boat – will jettison one evening with whiskey-scented lies;

Hurry – cut a few paper-shaving birds & stars to lead a lighthouse astray.

A sea on vacation, back-floats, waiting an unpenned plan – yonder lay

a paper dream – ingredients for an origami evening, a blueprint collates

Hurry – cut a few paper-shaving birds & stars to lead a lighthouse astray.

Fold it into a paper boat & launch – perchance an idle sea awaits

a paper dream & ingredients for an origami evening, a blueprint collates

half-sunken bottles, blue crabs, us – nearby a stray clementine lay…

Fold it into a paper boat & launch – perchance an idle sea awaits

a deep ink-blue sky & a time-traveling paper-boat that lost its way

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