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  • The American Poetry Review

    FOUR POEMS

    Jul 01, 2022 2 minutes
    JANA PRIKRYL

    A Procedure

    I had some minor surgery on Monday
    yet I keep trimming the sheets around
    my person with these, they put me to sleep for this
    enterprising eel, eye-first, home movie

    the little man who’s fourgot us up for sunrise in the living roombecause it’s very beautiful he saidit showed nothing no

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