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From Liontaming in America, which was published last month by New Directions.

I was reaching for a passage to the world they came from, the bodies slowly turning into the dirt from which I came.

A sentence shot with sleeplessness.

Something in the middle distance while my eyes are on the road.

I feel for a pen somewhere above the speed limit, clothed in metal flying just above the ground.

I write this sentence on a cliff above a lake.

A deer comes to look while I take something to get me through the twilight.

I write this as I…

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