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Riddle

By Charles Bernstein
Poetry•Vol. XXVII No. 2 (Summer 2014)

Here it is

Now not there

Gone too soon

Then as was

Just like this

Where I am

Out of sight

Never far

Take me soon

Nearly neigh

Charles Bernstein
Charles Bernstein is the author of Recalculating (University of Chicago Press 2013), Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions (Chicago 2011), and All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010). He is Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is co-director of PennSound. He is also editor of the Electronic Poetry Center.

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