Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Poetry

DJ Benhaim | The Begotten Lens

The Begotten Lens after Ernest Cole They were keptin cold silence—as if shamecould be preserved frozen. Glass dry,sealed from time,no clocksto confessthe hour. No one asked—what becomes of...

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