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Latte Art

by Sam McDonald
If I came here for the authenticity 
Then I would be 
Lost
But I came here for the view
For the polyphony of filters
And the aesthetic of the tilted--
Polaroid 
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Symphonies and mimicries 
And less than half 
Truths hung perilously 
By the fray of an immaculate moment

Cemented––
In place

Sam McDonald is an MA Creative Writing Student at the University of Lincoln, UK.