Sometimes I let her speak my words
invest another meaning from a different tongue
The audience detects a variance
bouncing between their projection
and my pretensions hiding sentiments
I dare not express
An image has its form
to protect against distortions
Transformation
Fluctuations perturb the steady facade
put on for protection from the uncouth mob
at the ready to beat you into the shape
of their imagination
The world is easier lived in the head
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Imogen Arate is an award-winning Asian-American poet and writer and the Executive Producer and Host of Poets and Muses (https://poetsandmuses.com), a weekly poetry podcast that won second place at National Federation of Press Women's 2020 Communications Contest. She has written in four languages and published in two. Her works were most recently published by dyst, The New Verse News and the Dwell Time Press. You can find her @PoetsandMuses on Twitter and Instagram.
This poem was recently discussed on Imogen's podcast Poets and Muses, you can find the episode here: https://soundcloud.com/poetsandmuses/imogen-arate-with-keagan-wheat
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