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Article: Does he incline his head to become calligraphy. (untitled poem)
- Article from:
- The American Poetry Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
- Author:
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Does he incline his head to become calligraphy, memory of the body's desire
for the moving letters of an alphabet of intractable geometry, Ariadne's thread
as the trickling of warm blood? Is the head bent in reminiscence,
thought of distance, arteries' incandescence, first witness,
precision of a gesture? Of which a trace remains
at a certain distance. At a certain distance
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