the plural [kiki dimoula]

Love:

noun, substantive,

extremely substantive,

singular in number;

gender not feminine, not masculine,

gender defenseless.

Plural the number

of defenseless loves.

Fear:

substantive,

singular to start with

plural afterward:

fears.

Fears of

everything from now on.

Memory:

Noun, proper name for sorrows,

singular in number,

singular only,

and indeclinable.

Memory, memory, memory.

Night:

substantive,

gender feminine,

number singular.

Plural in number

the nights.

The nights from now on.

From the ‘The Brazen Plagiarist’, by Kiki Dimoula; translated by Cecile Inglessis Margellos and Rika Lessser

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