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Thank you Milosz

Mortifications and Lies (forthcoming);
Words on Words (pamphlet)
Overland, no 148 Spring 1997 p43
Whetstone, (Canada) Fall 1997, p 7






Listen to the Poet Read
thank god for words
to divide the world

to break up the plain synergy
of thing on thing

thank god for the naming
separating off of us

from ancestor
tree from stable

staple from yarn
yearning from given

riven from beloved
thank god for words like

love so we know what we -
large and clumsy - are

deft at and thank words
for god so we can tell

ourselves apart

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