The Iowa Review

[To lie down in still waters of erasure]

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To lie down in still waters of erasure, rinsed in noise. Static from old landlines debrides the air, plastic phones in dumps revise their toxic compositio­ns. 300 feet rise from the factory roof, 150 souls are exported from Earth ahead of schedule. Phone rings, wrist lifts, eustachian fluid tilts, a vector communicat­es, one cell answers, one white note folds up in soft tissue. O when will it come to light? My medium is air, O lung, I am your morbid bride in white veil, white wreath, white cerements, a flower, a novice, and an infiltrate.

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