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By Adrian Lurssen
Poetry•Vol. XXXII No. 1 (Spring 2019)

A national explanation of war as solution, absolute as an x-ray, like an arm
lying open on the table. And when the plan becomes the reason, it is the way
light surrounds an insect and love fills a uniform. Always, the route over and
the angle between. In a time of names and necklaces, it shows how injury
passes for accent and aptitude measures ox and oxen. Otherwise, it is a lamp
passing for time, newly inspected.

Optional: it informs a notion.

Originally from South Africa, Adrian Lurssen lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over the years his work has been published in Fence, Word For/ Word, Phoebe, Indiana Review, American Letters & Commentary, and most recently the Boston Review's WHAT NATURE anthology.

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