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Historicity<br />
Grace Covill-Grennan<br />
behind my yard, behind my ears<br />
the forest is a looming gray wall<br />
crows circling something within<br />
cold branches clipping my elbows<br />
what can I tell about what I saw<br />
in the woods this afternoon?<br />
the purity and unmanageable weight<br />
of thing that remains<br />
in a rotting stump I found<br />
a fingernail partially embedded<br />
nearby, a molar beside a stained stone<br />
my tongue, traversing its<br />
white picket fence tastes<br />
loam and long forgetting<br />
recognition<br />
this site might as well be historical<br />
I can assume I should feel<br />
uncanny<br />
aware to the radical continuity<br />
of place, trees<br />
moss, stones<br />
bone<br />
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