The luckiest can
be shown how
to walk through
fire en route
to these two
rivers who don’t
will themselves to
run as much
as they just
get out of
the water’s way
the water running
its fingers through
the long green
hair growing down
around the shoulders
of these ladylike
boulders with no
faces or none
left the features
all worn away
at the bottom
of these riverbeds.

 

 

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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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