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Mimi Khalvati

Mimi Khalvati

British poet

Jul 7, 2026

6:49
Okay, well,
6:50
this is an early poem of mine.
6:53
It was just in my second collection, and it's a villanelle, so it's a fixed form, and it is metrical with a lot of substitutions of the metrical feet, but it's not rhymed as a very classic villanelle would be, and it's called Coma.
7:20
Mr. Halvaty.
7:23
Larger than life he was.
7:26
Too large to die, so they wired him up on a bed.
7:30
Small as a soul he is on the mountain ledge.

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33:05
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