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Li-Young Lee - The City in Which I Love You (1990)

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And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain.

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A door jumps out from shadows, then jumps away. This is what I've come to find: the back door, unlatched. Tooled by insular wind, it slams and slams without meaning to and without meaning.

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I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening,

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A bruise, blue in the muscle, you impinge upon me. As bone hugs the ache home, so I'm vexed to love you, your body the shape of returns, your hair a torso of light, your heat I must have, your opening I'd eat, each moment of that soft-finned fruit, inverted fountain in which I don't see me.

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Born: August 19, 1957 (age 67)
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