TriQuarterly, January 1st, 2000
I Huge shell the remnant of my great-grandmother dragon, Split open to form the world, They have made a boat of it And set me here. The effect is of scarcely tolerable pleasure. II If I am anything I am young, so young. As I arrive on this shallow scalloped sea Zephyr huffs flowers at me, frowning. The effect is to deepen my reverie. My face emerges from another world Behind the picture plane, a world Of light and clouds, volumes of clouds. The artist has set it at an impossible angle Upon my impossibly swanlike Neck, my impossibly sloping shoulders. If I am anything I am unre...
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