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From Little Elegies for Sister Satan, a poetry collection, which was published in May 2021 by New Directions.

Here, Sister, it can be said
that good-by means hello,
day night, far near, here
where the rivers run uphill
and the clouds lie still

and your shadow, ghost sister,
emits an incendiary light.
Sister, we have ridden the mute centaurs
and firebirds round and round in the dark
and slowly learned to spell

without words, gauge the ebbs and swells
of the untellable tale. Praise the infinite,
nameless tellers of tales

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