"If I could/bind myself to this moment, to the slow//snare of its scent/what would it matter if I became//just the flutter of page/in a text someone turns//to examine me/in the wrong color?"

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Source : Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.13, Macmillan

Mary Szybist

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Source : Source: progressive.org
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