Purgatorio’s full of song.
The horns blow full
choruses.
Responsibility is to keep
the ability to respond.
Nurses
urge you on. “Sing!
Sing!” they say. “Sing!”
And
you try to do
it without crying but
can’t.
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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