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Elmer's English 304 Magazine
Poetry
Players ("Ted and Sylvia")
The copious books of poems read academically
by students, feeding frenzy in a tenure run:
fish — gray-brown uprising; flies —
your love squeezed amid thin pages, pages
pressed tight, pressed insects and nymphs dried flat,
bits of twine, wool and wax; your love
delighted. Then
abandoned. Who was the fisher? Who the bear to be hunted?
How the new fish swam behind the old fish at the suitable distance.
E.G. Wiens
Adapted from:
Graham, Josie. "Prayer ("From Behind Trees")." New Yorker. 21 Jan. 2001: 80.
Wiens, Elmer. A Writer's Journal.
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