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1995-11-13
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before me, rinsed in photographic chemicals,
resolving, moon behind me, yellow, lit like a lemurΓÇÖs
great eye and rising, casting whose chimeric
shadow down to merge with a mirror-image?ΓÇömark:
before the stopped film burns through, curls
back, catching fire, the whole chiaroscuro
gone, the frail electric surface of the North American
Desert disrupted, sand to stained glass in a great scare-
crow cratering, to blind this candled cockerelΓÇö
Not dawn. Begin again: choke back these Kyries
for now, and spin this tale with all the arrogance
that it requires, beginning with diaspora,
while highway reels black asphalt back across this sparse
moonscape like a strip of exposed film, frame, frame,