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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
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