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Haiku II

April 23rd, 2025

Kiss in the attic, I became a girl again— dreams in the still air.

— Cecilia Tan

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Love’s Reckoning

Poems by Cecilia Tan. A record of a love that was real — and the words written in its light and its silence.

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