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    THREE POEMS

    Sep 01, 2020 2 minutes
    CATE PEEBLES

    Night Sea

    after Agnes Martin

    We had a great time
    walking into oblivion
    before dinner

    unburdened by the wind
    of tinkering conversation
    a glorious glut

    of being shut up
    by implied continuum
    spun off in ultramarine pieces

    though I don’t think
    you can imagine
    even a particle of vastness

    I’m not able toreally, but this is the realthing—a picture, an interior

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