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News (II)

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

The natural expectation of water and sand is to ambush – like an x-ray or
anthem. It is not an accident of training; the plan has no training. It is a nest
that ultimately ends without explanation. The door or roof? None. Just a
camp of remains. Here, the angle is to train without a lamp, to treat the
accent as terrain, to look for insects in an open 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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