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Miriam Sagan

Anxiety Detail from "Resist Staying" How often I've longed For a really long book to read To relieve my suffering-- Waiting in the dentist's office, or My heart broken... Something like The Makioka Sisters, Written during war, or The Tale of Genji Or Magic Mountain or even Something fat and trashy For a day at the beach. I used to sit on the sand Of the perfectly wide and clear Beach outside my grandmother's Art Deco building. It wasn't until forty years later, Again on Miami Beach, Watching the tankers and freighters Float as if weightless in the broad shipping channel That I saw that turquoise water All the way to Cuba All the way to Tierra del Fuego Like an Otis Redding song Like a David Hockney swimming pool Like something you don't even Have to tire yourself out Comparing to something. Then I realized: Well, that was beauty That was what I'd seen in the dream That was what gave me the taste For the edge Of continents Among other things.

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Issue #26, April, 2002 :
Santa Fe Poetry Broadside.