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Design

by Katie Peterson

"Design" won the 2006 Summer Literary Seminars-Russia poetry contest, judged by Robert Hass.

Published in the May 2007 issue.  » BUY ISSUE     

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The tree arrested you as light

flew across it, as shadows
textured each hour with new design.
Your name
puckered in your hands. Music, you said,
they pucker sound when they puncture
light with attributes of light, and he

replied, I am not responsible for that.

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