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“it’s impossible for me even to guess / since as they say / he really has no country of his own.”
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“What Lacan figures as structural alienation, Cixous writes as bodily anguish.”
“It must have burned him up to hear Waldy brag to the girl who kicked his tooth out.”
“Medical stories should not be suspenseful. She lived.”
“They are like men because they are isolated / yet stand in the rain, surrounded by mounds / of dirt and asphalt to catch spillover—”
“I swiveled my head then to find a deer / camouflaged by the leaves no longer there / ‘what should I do with someone’s silhouette?’ ”
“She merely rotates for me her mask / as if to bring something / born in one world back in another”