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By Ann Lauterbach, from a manuscript in progress. Lauterbach has published nine volumes of poetry, including, most recently, Under the Sign (2013).

An impermeable layer gardens

the sleuth patch, guarded and sworn

into rescue, or mission. The quaint

untranslatable song

forsaking its mild page, unfaithful as ever.

I’m dressed in clouds and they

are smirking at the edge

of late-age homilies, and the poor star

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