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Lucy Aron
Fog


The landscape looms
and ebbs, its center skittery
as an owl at daybreak. Not things,
but their shadows, and cold
as old grief. Here a man sits reading
a book, so near I can hear the low
iambic in-and-out of his breath—
yet faraway in this scumbling place
where we totter and stumble toward
each other, where I would give an eye
for one clear sign of south, for one
chink of light in this grey wilderness.


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