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For One Must Want/To Shut the Other's Gaze

American Poetry Review, The, Nov/Dec 1997 by Graham, Jorie

What are you thinking?

Here on the bottom?

What do you squint clear for yourself

up there through the surface?

Explain door ajar.

Explain hopeth all.

Explain surface future subject-of.

Pierce.

Be swift.

(Let's wade again)

Offstage: pointing-at)

(Offstage: stones placing themselves on eyes)

Here: tangle and seaweed

current diagram how deep? I have

forgotten.

Don't leave me. I won't.

Of course.

Explain saturated.

Explain and I had no more eyes.

(Oh did they really cross the sea)

Even the least

Even the last

This is certain

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(of course) (take up the arms) (name the place)

The real plot was invisible.

What are you thinking?