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Article: Arctic Jaeger.(poem)
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- Chicago Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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This bird comes between the light and your reading, hang-glides in the corner of your eye, a pirate
with a feather in its cap - a sly con riding the breath of your best line; flying straight out of Olson's delirium tremens
hangs around with dead things under its wing; heavier than a night heron like a loose-winged falcon:
take its shape to mean blood sport on our terms. Lines drawn from the breath, one flash of meaning following
another, a bad draft tangled in its claw a quote ...