Hard to leave
the city within
a city within
a dream whose
herrings all run
in red weather;
March to May,
they run like
horses within horses
within a poem
that won’t stop.
Julia Guez’s collections of poetry are The Certain Body and In an Invisible Glass Case Which Is Also a Frame (both from Four Way). She is currently working on a book of poems about Robert Duncan and the Gowanus Canal and translating La Mano Suicida by María Montero.
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