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from ICEBLINK
She neither arrives nor departs
but modifies constant
Cove’s pliable shore
Never tethered is it
so permanent to regard itself
immortal
Bury she may his bones
within the ossuary
Crab-apple
or buried sun
She questions the one part of every sound
pining for a different pitch
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Pockets of water cupped
in clefts of calcified bone
Scattered vertebrae
Rock-moss
phosphorescent and
the pond becoming a meadow
Switch of lightning
Switch of song
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Rob Schlegel’s The Lesser Fields was selected for the 2009 Colorado Prize for Poetry from the Center for Literary Publishing and will be released in November, 2009. His poems and reviews have appeared in Boston Review, VOLT, Colorado Review, Pleiades, Octopus and elsewhere. With Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel he edits The Catenary Press, publisher of limited-edition chapbooks dedicated to serial poems. He occasionally posts here.
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