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1st annual print edition:
June 20, 2004

 

#52

Bumpies


for Jeff Kopie


We are not made small
by the giant bloom in the sea,
nor the great ocean itself;
nor are we justified by the beloved
thoughtlessness of our appetites.
The magnificent looping logic
of the moon is a better gauge,
more than enough elevation.

 

—Todd Young