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\"\"

Photograph courtesy of the author.<\/p><\/div>\n

I was still but tried, in a burst it\u2019s all lit up by.
\nIn the quiet permission<\/p>\n

I took my unit of heart and wondered if it was enough.
\nCan\u2019t in cannot, the backwater was canceled<\/p>\n

So a quiet commercial
\nCould play inside instead. An artifact<\/p>\n

Gathered and became immobile, and even so
\nChanged year to year until its recognition fell to wind itself.<\/p>\n

I felt myself. I felt myself inhabiting it so I felt myself. In everything
\nTo see a circular tape, again and<\/p>\n

Again I see it, determining the summer was suddenness
\nNetting how images can melt, can melt<\/p>\n

the video lengthening some dream
\nBecause exhaust is unmanageable and so released. I push in the tape,<\/p>\n

Iridescent and wet. I\u2019m soggy and failing at no end in sight
\nAnd just figures on their way, where are they going,<\/p>\n

What is their position. Let me place you inside the deer
\nTo keep you warm.<\/p>\n

You can read two more poems by Sara Gilmore, \u201cMad as only an angel can be<\/a>\u201d and \u201cKnowing constraint<\/a>\u201d in the new Fall issue of <\/em>The Paris Review, no. 249. You can also read Gilmore\u2019s thoughts on writing \u201cSafe camp\u201d <\/em>here<\/a> on the <\/em>Daily.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Sara Gilmore is a poet and translator. She teaches at the University of Iowa and works as a phlebotomist.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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