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Journal II
After G.A.
Shapes of the unsaid
puncture the ordinary—
“astonished by daylight”
from exile, in
exile
derivations of
inbeing—
would efface this
prelude for the sun
its solidarity—
a green node above
the filament
yellow-starred
anthers
this half-
room in
shadow
the scuttled align-
ment of letters
the many-
lived lives
of words
unknown among
memory gaps—
a stillpoint for
the artifacts
of silence.
The hundredpoems—
forgotten.
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Roger Snell lives in San Francisco with the lovely Ann Marie and their almost five year old son Duncan. They edit & publish Sardines Press. His new book The Morning has just been published by Plein Air Editions & Bootstrap Press. Check out a review of the book at Bookslut.
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