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Disunion

Every day to wake up supposing
so many lines at once
they seem more
of an air or some skin

Please give me enough darkness
to hear a bell ringing
and keep it contained
within a spotlight
a brilliant hole

Perhaps separate
from its endless concluding
if we find that we have to begin

Award-winning poet of 'The Trees The Trees'. Author of 'The Crying Book'. Published in The New Yorker, Poetry, & more. Former fellow at Emory.