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In the Year the Hero Becomes a Fixture of His Landscape

lunch-poems:

by Wendy Xu

Between loss and sabbatical, spring

        thick of ivy snakes

a juniper tree. I intended

        not less than six ways of

writing you, careful,

        face turned down into a book

of psalms.

        Night opens to quiet symmetry where

I will sleep when you sleep

        next to me. Instructions

we parse, small nations flower in

        your mouth. You belong to

the horse
                that bore you here.


(via lunch-poems)