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  • The American Poetry Review

    FIVE POEMS

    May 01, 2023 2 minutes

    Anabasis

    But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
    —Matthew 19:22

    What if I started here if this
    Were the beginning what except
    The differences were small and kept
    Myself no not the differences

    Keeping and kept some most of whatBefore or always I had doneIn the midst of winter winter goneIf after this my life were not

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